| Title: | Accessing Parent CFC's Variables |
| Date: | 03/29/03 13 Posts |
| Summary: | Here's a CFC mini-lesson that focuses on the data accessibility differences between inherited and composition child objects. In short, a child composition object cannot see any of its enclosing parent object's non-public variables, but inherited objects do have access to all of the base object's data. This thread also includes important points about the use of init() and instance. |
| Title: | Form Building software |
| Date: | 03/30/03 22 Posts |
| Summary: | Looking for software that will make short work of database entry forms with add/update/delete functionality? One poster offers his code to build a form from a SQL Server table. Other recommendations include Dreamweaver MX, XForms, CommerceBlocks V2.1, LoRCAT, and CF-Builder. URLs are included. |
| Title: | Request for Review: "Variables in CFML |
| Date: | 03/30/03 22 Posts |
| Summary: | A paper about CFML variables inspires a discussion about why some developers use client variables rather than session variables. This thread concludes with a summary of how J2EE sessions work in a clustered server environment. |