As an aside, Rob Gonda's AjaxCFC handles numbers 2 and 3 below nicely, and he's built a hook into jquery into the latest version. You can set the return type to JSON or WDDX, and it will report a nice error message for you if there's an error in your cfc. Not sure how that would tie in with the need for a facade, but it could probably be integrated.
-- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan G. Switzer, II To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:12 PM Subject: [jQuery] Re: Coldfusion: using $.get() to directly call a CFC living outside of the webroot Andy, I actually prefer using a façade (which is you're doing) for a few reasons: 1) You're preventing direct access to the CFC. While I do use CFC for Webservices, the CFCs I expose are usually façades for an internal API with limited roles and access. 2) Calling a CFC directly returns the results as WDDX (at least in CF7 and earlier.) I prefer using JSON-because it's lighter weight. A simple data structure in WDDX can produce a pretty large data packet, where the same packet in JSON is considerable smaller. 3) I can build whatever additional error handling for the AJAX call into the façade. I mean, what happens if your CFC throws an error? I want to make sure that my AJAX calls now what do to if something funky happens. -Dan
