1. Mach-II Intro Macromedia MAX 2003 Stephen Rittler CounterMarch Systems

2. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Agenda  Genesis of Mach-ii  Components of a Mach application  Overview of a request/response cycle with Mach  A peek under the covers of a functioning Mach application

3. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Components  Mach-ii.xml   Plugins and filters

4. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Mach-ii.xml  The “controller”  Defines application flow  Lots of fun to work with in a development team!

5. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Properties  The area of the XML file where you stash variables that you used to drop in Application.cfm

6. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Event handlers  Each action that a user takes (and some that are done implicitly) is an event  Each “event” is mapped to an “event-handler” in the xml file  Inside each event-handler are the data retrieval and display tags related to that event

7. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Page-view  A page-view is just display logic and any user input fields  There is no data retrieval in the view template. All data is passed in via request variables {real, live code demo}

8. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Listeners  The “data go-getters”  They sit out there in application scope and wait to be called on {real, live code demo}

9. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Plugins and Filters Stolen from Sean Corfield:  Rule of thumb: if you need to do it on every single request, event handler, or view, you should use a plugin.  If you need to perform some operation on data provided to certain events or listener methods, you should use a filter. The inner workings of plugins and filters are beyond the scope of today’s workshop. They are a great way to implement a login/security framework though!

10. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Let’s look at an application!  Reviewing the request/response cycle

11. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Lessons Learned  We’ve been developing applications using Mach-ii for a little over a year now  We were not Fusebox developers; learned from scratch with the Amkor guys (you rock!)  Spin-up time was FAST  Solid naming conventions are key to maintainability  Fundamentals of OOP are important  More learning in this area is warranted  Version control software is vital. The XML file changes frequently, especially on a large development team

12. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Q and A  Questions? Comments?

13. 2771 Red Oak Circle Bethlehem, PA 18017 info@countermarch.com Resources http://www.mach-ii.info/ http://tutorial345.easycfm.com/ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/machiidevguide/