1. FW/1 - Framework One An introduction to the ColdFusion framework created by Sean Corfield. Presented by Ben Ellefson

2. About Me  ColdFusion developer for 9 years  Twin Cities CFUG Manager  Framework enthusiast  Experience with Fusebox, Model-Glue, Mach-ii, ColdBox, ColdSpring, Reactor and now FW/1  Disclaimer: Mach-ii fan

3. What is FW/1?  ColdFusion MVC Framework  Lightweight – single CFC file (1700 lines)  Convention based instead of configuration based  Flexible code organization

4. Why Sean made FW/1  Dissatisfied with current application frameworks  Too bloated  Too complex  Requires XML  Dependent on configuration  Too much overhead for simple apps

5. Simple Application  org  Contains single framework file  views  Contains section folders  View cfm files within each folder  Application.cfc  Extends org.corfield.framework  Index.cfm  Blank

6. Standard Application  controllers  Contains cfc for each section  layouts  Contains cfm for each layout  services  Contains cfc for each service

7. FW/1 URLs  All links direct to /index.cfm  Pages access using ?action=section.item  Section = name of folder within views folder  Item = file within views/section folder  SES URLs available  /index.cfm/section/item/name/value

8. Controllers  ?action=section.item looks for the method item() in /controllers/section.cfc  Passes the request collection “rc” as a single argument. Struct containing url and form variables, plus more.  Automatically calls before(), startItem(), Item(), endItem(), after()  Controllers are cached, cleared with ?reload=true

9. Layouts  Multiple layouts are available  View Layout: /layouts/section/item.cfm  Section Layout: /layouts/section.cfm  Site Layout: /layouts/default.cfm  Layouts cascade from view to section to site  Cancel cascading by setting request.layout = false  #body# contains current rendered view

10. Services  Services called from controller by fw.service(“cfc.function",“variable")  Results placed in requet collection “rc” with variable name stated in the call

11. Views  Receive the request collection “rc” from the controller to display variables populated by the service.  View file called is automatically determined by the action (i.e. section.item)  View file can be changed by calling setView() or setLayout() to call a new action.

12. Critique  Hard to find information  No framework website  Documentation only found through Corfield’s Blog  No community around FW/1  Very little found via Google search  Framework not compatible with CF previous to 9.0.1  Conventions assume small app and do not allow for deep nesting of folders.

13. Critique  Sample and Skeleton apps are poor  Filled with bugs  Too simple to understand how a full app would be built with FW/1  No comments in code  In 6 hours testing for this presentation, I was unable to build one page that had a query in the service passed to the view to display.

14. More Information  Available for download at http://fw1.riaforge.org/ http://fw1.riaforge.org/  Free for use under the Apache 2.0 License  Latest version requires ColdFusion 9.0.1  Documentation at https://github.com/seancorfield/fw1/wiki https://github.com/seancorfield/fw1/wiki