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Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

By : Matthew Gifford
Book Image

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

Chapter 6. Gateways

In Chapter 5, we explored and developed Data Access Objects (DAOs) for our application that managed single-record transactions one row of data inserted, updated, deleted, or returned at any one time and how the Bean object was used as the blueprint to hold and manage the values returned from the DAO queries.

Having dealt with these single-record transactions, we now need to focus on reading and handling results from a database query or data provider that returns multiple records per transaction.

Managing an application that may hold and use large amounts of content from a data provider can be a daunting task at times.

It is not uncommon for applications to feature large search interfaces, perhaps with pagination, such as lists of users within a contact application, for example.

When developing object-oriented applications, the burden of dealing with large queries such as these can be easily managed by wrapping all relevant code into one object, a Gateway.

In this chapter...