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Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion
This book is a fast-paced tutorial to developing ColdFusion applications using an object-oriented programming approach. Complete with code examples that can be altered and applied to your application and careful explanations, this book will guide you through your first interaction with object-oriented programming within your ColdFusion applications. If you are a web developer wanting to implement object-oriented programming with ColdFusion, then this book is for you. If your goal is to get a good grounding in the basics of object-oriented programming concepts, this book is perfect for you. No prior knowledge of object-oriented programming is expected, but basic knowledge of ColdFusion development skills is assumed.
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 13, 2010
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January 24, 2011
This book was a very quick read - I read it cover to cover in a little more than two and a half hours. Still, it manages to pack in a very succinct and clear explanation of the basic building blocks of OOP in ColdFusion: CFCs and the "Bean" paradigm.
If you're already familiar with the technical aspects: What CFCs are, how to write them, and how to instantiate and use them; then you can probably skip directly to chapter 4, where the less tangible aspects of OOP are covered: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition, and Aggregation. These are the concepts I was hoping to expand my understanding of by reading this book and while they are all covered and perhaps done justice, I would have liked to have seen a bit more content dedicated to them. As it is, all of these topics share a single 22 page chapter. After which, a lengthy discussion of DAOs, Gateways, and Services finishes out the book; which may do more harm than good.
As a veteran of the "5-to-1" arguments (is it necessary to create a bean, dao, gateway, service, and value-object for every entity/table?), I tend to stray away from informing people about all of the intricacies of each of these objects for fear of understanding being mistaken for promotion. I hope people don't read this book and take his explanation as advice, and start creating all of these objects unnecessarily again.
For as short a book as it is, I suppose it's a fair distribution of content, but as I said, I would have liked to see a bit more discussion around the 4 most often confused concepts of OOP and less around DAOs, Gateways, Services, etc.
If you're already familiar with the technical aspects: What CFCs are, how to write them, and how to instantiate and use them; then you can probably skip directly to chapter 4, where the less tangible aspects of OOP are covered: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition, and Aggregation. These are the concepts I was hoping to expand my understanding of by reading this book and while they are all covered and perhaps done justice, I would have liked to have seen a bit more content dedicated to them. As it is, all of these topics share a single 22 page chapter. After which, a lengthy discussion of DAOs, Gateways, and Services finishes out the book; which may do more harm than good.
As a veteran of the "5-to-1" arguments (is it necessary to create a bean, dao, gateway, service, and value-object for every entity/table?), I tend to stray away from informing people about all of the intricacies of each of these objects for fear of understanding being mistaken for promotion. I hope people don't read this book and take his explanation as advice, and start creating all of these objects unnecessarily again.
For as short a book as it is, I suppose it's a fair distribution of content, but as I said, I would have liked to see a bit more discussion around the 4 most often confused concepts of OOP and less around DAOs, Gateways, Services, etc.
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February 25, 2014My job involves more involved programming than is outlined in this book, but I learned as I went so I didn't have much theory to back up what I'd picked up on the job. This book did fill in a few gaps in my knowledge, especially of the vocabulary of OOP and how the parts fit together in theory.
August 20, 2011
Excellent OOP basics using ColdFusion for the language.
November 9, 2013
really good job applying OOP concepts to CF.
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