Glyn Jackson's Web Design and ColdFusion Blog - ColdFusion 9

My First ColdBox ORM Setup

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:50:00 +0100

As promised I will be posting on my own experiences in setting up CF9's inbuilt ORM with ColdBox. Most of this will be for my own reference, if I am making a mistake please point them out. Hopefully these posts will help others starting out with CB and CF9 ORM.

My first post starts at the beginning, how to setup ORM to use in your application. For this example I am using the M6 release of ColdBox so some of this may change by the final release.

Right, let's start.

First like a normal CF9 ORM project you have to tell your application you are using ORM. ColdBox has it's own set of tools which help integrate hibernate. The first is must if you're going to use hibernate within CB, and that's the event handler! I would suggest reading up on the ORM event handler as it does a lot more and shows you how to setup Autowire to inject objects into your entities etc.


	// ORM Setup
	this.ormEnabled = true;
	this.datasource = "myDS";
	this.ormSettings = {
		dbcreate = "update",
		dialect = "MicrosoftSQLServer",//Specifies the dialect. 
		logSQL = true,
		eventhandling = true,
		eventhandler = "model.ORMEventHandler",
		flushAtRequestEnd = false
	};

As you can see you have added eventhandling = true, and eventhandler = "model.ORMEventHandler" to the code above. You will now need to add the ORMEventHandler.cfc to your model folder (providing you are following the same folder structure of course).

Next I am going to setup my first Domain Object. Depending on how your using it you will need to create this in the same model folder.

For this example we will setup a simple object and I will assume you already have some understanding of this.

[More]

Dear ColdBox

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:20:00 +0100

It's been hard for me to get my head around CF9 ORM and ColdBox. The first mistake was using ORM within ColdBox for the first time. My life would have been easy if I had just started at the beginning with ORM. Why did I do it! Why!

Anyhow, I am committed! Truly, exciting and frustrated at the same time. The ColdBox support group is really helpful and if I may say incredibly patient at helping me with my stupid questions!

Over the next few weeks I am going to write up my own experiences with ORM and set up a demo using the M6 version of ColdBox. It won't be from an authority point of view, but from a beginners venture into ORM. In the mean time I want to just remind people of a post Luis made about community and support.

Post Here

Luis gives back so much with this Framework it's made my life a lot easier, if it's helped you, then why not do your bit to.

Layer Example Added to RIAForge

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:50:00 +0100

I have had requests for an example of the CFC I used in the "Creating a simple Layar with ColdFusion" Tutorial. I decided to comment on the CFC and upload it to RIAForge. So if anyone wants it you can find the project there

It's only a example of what's needed to create POI's and Actions. POI, and objects. However you should be pulling these from a database!

I would love to know what others are doing with Layar at the moment.

ColdBox M5 and 2.6.4 Playing Together Continued

Sun, 02 May 2010 17:29:00 +0100

This morning I had sometime on my hands to revisit how I had setup ColdBox M5 using refactoring. Following a comment by Jason Dean, who suggested it would be much easier to use application specific mappings with CF8+. So I decided to give it another ago.

When I first tried this I got an error due to Application.cfc extending the framework. As another comment pointed out ColdBox apparently since version 2.6 comes with a no inheritance version that instead of extending the framework bootstraps it. This would allow me declare my mapping before the framework is initialised.

This is why I love the medium I choose to express myself in and the CF community, because they are so helpful.

CF9 is here and another CF Builder Beta - check it out!

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:43:00 +0100

Everyone is already talking/writing about it, not wanting to miss out! ColdFusion 9 is released, prices are out! ColdFusion Builder not yet ready another beta is now available, check it out.