February 12, 2009 | In: AOP, coldfusion, design patterns
I'd heard other people in the community mention that, while ColdFusion 8 was faster, object creation was notoriously slow. I never understood what they were talking about as I was creating up to 3000 DTO objects to pass to Flex and was seeing times...
October 2, 2008 | In: AOP, cfml, coldspring, flex
The Value Objects Otherwise known as a transfer object is simply a design pattern for exchanging data between disparate systems. I'm working on a application with a Flex UI and a ColdFusion backend, and I initially discovered that if I return a query...
September 15, 2008 | In: cfml, coldspring, design patterns, model-glue
Autowiring in ColdFusion Most of you may have heard of autowiring, and many of you may have implemented it in an application by now (most likely with Spring, ColdSpring, or Google Guice). If you don't know what autowiring is, or are curious about how...
August 27, 2008 | In: cfml, coldspring, design patterns, SOA
I've been meaning to share this for many reasons, but I've been bogged down with projects lately. However, it has allowed the code to mature and get streamlined a bit, so it's good that some time has passed. This is a pattern that we've come up with at...