1. ColdSpring Powered Fusebox In Action
Adam Wayne Lehman
ColdFusion Specialist
Adobe Systems, Inc.

2. ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe
About Me
ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe
Solutions Engineer
Technical Evangelist
Member of the ColdFusion Product Team
10+ years of ColdFusion experience
Previous Lives
US Department of State
Johns Hopkins University

3. Agenda Introduction to ColdSpring Fusebox / ColdSpring MVC
ColdSpring Lexicons
Demo
Q & A

4. What is ColdSpring? ColdSpring is a Model Framework
Community driven, open source ColdFusion component container inspired by J2EE Spring Framework
Dave Ross
Chris Scott
Uses the J2EE Spring syntax and DTD for its xml config file
ColdFusion’s first Aspect Oriented Programming framework
Service layer framework for CFCs
Manages the lifecycle and dependencies of your CFCs
You don’t have to alter your existing CFCs to get them to work with ColdSpring
Enforces best practices in domain design
The most popular ColdFusion framework today!

5. Fusebox MVC Controller View Model Event
(fuseaction)
Processes and responded to events
Can update the model directly
Circuit.xml
Controller
Domain model
Abstracts the database
acts, qrys & CFCs
Renders model into UI
HTML
dsp_myForm.cfm
View
Model

6. Fusebox _VC Use Fusebox to manage the controller and the view View
Procedural style better suited for HTML development
Easier for designers and content managers
Controller
Configured ‘declaratively’ through xml
Highly extensible (lexicons)
Tons of existing solutions to common problems (plugins)
Controller
View

7. ColdSpring M_ _
Use ColdSpring to manage the model and define the domain
OO design solves complex problems
Full Component Lifecycle
Manages Dependencies
Configured ‘declaratively’ through xml
Very lightweight
Model is framework agnostic
Model

8. Singletons & Factories
Objects that persist across requests
Minimal object creation = fast application
Factories
Responsible for maintaining Singletons
Handles configuration
Manages the object lifecycle
Creates the object
Persist the object
Directs requests to the object

9. Inversion of Control / Dependency Injection
Objects not responsible for managing dependencies
ColdSpring’s factory bakes the dependencies in during object creation (dependency injection)
Setter Injection
Construction Injection

10. All CFCs are not the same
Value Object (DTO or Domain Object)
DAO
fetch, save, remove, create, update
Gateway
Services
Façade for a group of model components
Should only talk to their components or other services
Service
DAO
Gateway
Value Object

11. ColdSpring and Fusebox in Action
PDF and FlashPaper 2 reports with <CFReport /> and the ColdFusion Report Builder tool
Integrated printable documents with <CFDocument />
Demonstrate a ColdFusion MX 7 SMS mobile application
LitePost Demo
ColdSpring Lexicons
Working with ColdSpring

12. Initializing ColdSpring
Create a fuseaction to initialize ColdSpring
<circuit access="internal" xmlns:cs="coldspring/">
<cs:initialize coldspringfactory="servicefactory“>
<cs:bean beanDefinitionFile="#expandPath(‘coldspring-services.xml')#" />
</cs:initialize>
</circuit>
Add fuseaction call to fusebox.xml.cfm
<globalfuseactions>
<appinit>
<do action="home.initColdSpring" />
</appinit>
</globalfuseactions>

13. Using ColdSpring Getting a ColdSpring object in circuit.xml
<fuseaction name=“displayAllEntries”
<cs:get bean=“entryService” returnvariable=“REQUEST.entryService” />
<invoke object=“REQUEST.entryService” method=“getEntries” returnvariable=“REQUEST.entries” /> or
<set name=“REQUEST.entries” value=“#REQUEST.entryService()#” />
</fuseaction>

14. Resources Official FuseBox Website Official ColdSpring Website
Official ColdSpring Website
Sean Corfield (primary contributor to FuseBox 5)