1. http://europe.cfunited.com/http://europe.cfunited.com/ March 12 & 13, 2007 Fusebox 5.5 Scaffolding Kevin Roche Objective Internet Ltd

2. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Who am I? Kevin Roche Cold Fusion Programmer11 years Internet Development 12 years Adobe Registered CF Trainer 8 years TVCFUG Manager Team Fusebox Member kevin@objectiveinternet.com

3. http://europe.cfunited.com/March 12 & 13, 2007 3 Themes for Fusebox 5.5 Simplification  The main complaint about Fusebox 4.x through Fusebox 5.1 is the use of XML to configure the application.  CFCs can replace Fusebox.xml Circuit.xml  Default values for most configuration

4. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Themes for Fusebox 5.5 Extensibility  Lexicons – Standard Lexicons for ColdSpring, Reactor, Transfer  Plugins – Standard Plugin for Assertions  Scaffolding – Scaffolder Code Generator Quickly generating basic data management applications. March 12 & 13, 2007 4

5. http://europe.cfunited.com/ What is scaffolding ? Architecture Building Scaffolding  Support during the building process.  Building Blocks which we modify and are actually used by the application. Scaffolder = Component Factory March 12 & 13, 2007 5

6. http://europe.cfunited.com/ What does it do? Database Introspection Code Generation March 12 & 13, 2007 6

7. http://europe.cfunited.com/ XML Metadata What? More XML!!!! A standardised way to define the data in the application. Extracted from the database by DB Introspection phase. Can be edited to improve generated code. March 12 & 13, 2007 7

8. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Code Generation Phase Uses Peter Bell’s cfTemplate ColdFusion based Template No need to learn XSLT! Create your own Templates  Your application can be converted into a template.  Now you can generate more of the same. March 12 & 13, 2007 8

9. http://europe.cfunited.com/ How do you use it? Copy the sample index.cfm file into your application Add the following parameter to your URL: index.cfm?scaffolding.go=display March 12 & 13, 2007 9

10. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Demo March 12 & 13, 2007 10 Click Next

11. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Configuration March 12 & 13, 2007 11 Choose a Datasource Give your Project a name Choose a Template You can decide to omit some tables

12. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Comments March 12 & 13, 2007 12

13. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Code Generation March 12 & 13, 2007 13 Choose to: Introspect Build Watch your code being built

14. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Completed Application March 12 & 13, 2007 14 List Page Edit Page

15. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Generated Code Structure Controller Forum Model mForum View vLayout vForum March 12 & 13, 2007 15

16. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Controller Fuseactions List View Add Add_Action Edit Edit_Action Delete March 12 & 13, 2007 16

17. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Model (ColdSpring template version) circuit.xml xxxxService xxxxRecord xxxxDAO xxxxGateway xxxxVO xxxxTO March 12 & 13, 2007 17

18. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Display Pages dsp_layout.cfm dsp_display_xxxx.cfm dsp_form_xxxx.cfm dsp_list_xxx.cfm What data’s displayed? March 12 & 13, 2007 18

19. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Roll your own Some examples of metadata.cfc methods getTablesFromXML() getSelectedTableAlias() getFieldsFromXML(table:string) getPKFieldsFromXML(table:string) getJoinedFieldsFromXML(table:string) getRelationshipsFromXML(table:string, type:string) March 12 & 13, 2007 19

20. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Roll your own cfTemplate code generator becomes > #getProject()# becomes $$getProject()$$ March 12 & 13, 2007 20

21. http://europe.cfunited.com/ DB Introspection Phase Current Status – Dec 2007 MSSQL 2000 or 2005  Oracle – Volunteers Needed  MySQL – Volunteers Needed  Doug Hughes has offered code from Reactor March 12 & 13, 2007 21

22. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Code Generation Phase Current Status – Templates Now Available  Reactor & Fusebox XML Based Maintenance Application  ColdSpring & Fusebox XML Based Maintenance Application Templates Under Construction  Coldspring & Fusebox CFC based Maintenance Application March 12 & 13, 2007 22

23. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Future Plans CFC based templates Wireframe tool as a datasource Introspect CFCs Application specific templates  Forums  Shop  Suggestions ? March 12 & 13, 2007 23

24. http://europe.cfunited.com/ Questions ? March 12 & 13, 2007 24