Dave Ross

ColdSpring is a framework for ColdFusion Components, inspired by the Spring Framework for Java, and its core focus is to manage the dependencies within your CFC "model." Dependencies are more common than you think: when one CFC needs another CFC to perform a task, it depends on that other CFC (and those two CFCs are known as "collaborators"). When a CFC needs a piece of configuration data, such as a datasource name, it depends on that piece of data. ColdSpring enables you to declaratively supply your CFCs with their dependencies, freeing you from having to write the code to do so (which unfortunately ends up in just about each and every component). ColdSpring practices what many refer to as "inversion-of-control." This simply means that the control of creating objects and resolving their dependencies is lifted out of the code and into the code's "container," which ... (more)