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Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

By : Matthew Gifford
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Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

By: Matthew Gifford

Overview of this book

Are you tired of procedural programming or is your extensive code base starting to become un-manageable? Breathe some new life into your code and improve your development skills with the basic concepts of object-oriented programming. Utilize objects, modular components, and design patterns to expand your skills and improve your ColdFusion applications. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just what you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.This book is a fast-paced tutorial to important ColdFusion object-oriented programming topics. It will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. Don't be put off by jargon or complex diagrams; read and see how you can benefit from this book and extend your development skills in the process.Using the practical examples within this guide, you will learn how to structure your applications and code, applying the fundamental basics of object-oriented programming to develop modular, reusable components that will scale easily with your application. You will learn the basic fundamental practices of object-oriented programming, from object creation and re-use, to Bean objects, service layers, Data Access objects, and sample design patterns to gain a better understanding of OOP using examples that can be altered and applied in your application. Complete with detailed code samples and snippets, and written in a friendly easy-to-follow style, you will be able to break free from writing purely procedural code and enhance your applications by building structured applications utilizing basic design patterns and object-oriented principles.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

What is a Bean?


Although the terminology evokes the initial reaction of cooking ingredients or a tin of food from a supermarket, the Bean is an incredibly important piece of the object-oriented design pattern.

The term 'Bean' originates from the Java programming language, and for those developers out there who enjoy their coffee as much as I do, the thought process behind it will make sense: Java = Coffee = Coffee Bean = Bean.

A Bean is basically the building block for your object. Think of it as a blueprint for the information you want each object to hold and contain. In relation to other ColdFusion components, the Bean is a relatively simple CFC that primarily has two roles in life:

  • to store information or a collection of values

  • to return the information or collection of values when required

But what is it really?

Typically, a ColdFusion bean is a single CFC built to encapsulate and store a single record of data, and not a recordset query result, which would normally hold more than one record...