Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion -- Table of Contents -- Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- Who this book is for -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introducing ColdFusion Components -- Why use CFCs? -- Grouping your functions -- Organizing your components -- The ColdFusion component tags -- Our first component -- Defining a method -- Returning the data -- ColdFusion 9 scripted components -- Creating your object -- Restricting your functions to scopes -- Using arguments within your methods -- The Arguments scope -- Redefine the function parameters -- Combining your methods -- Protecting your local variables -- Using the Var scope -- Placing your Var scoped variables -- Naming your Var scoped variables -- Accessing your CFC -- Instantiating the object -- Using the createObject function -- Using the cfobject tag -- Using the NEW operator -- Using cfinvoke -- The cfinvoke tag -- Using cfinvokeargument -- Using attributes as arguments -- Using an argument collection -- Passing arguments into an instance method call -- As a list -- As named values -- As an argumentCollection -- Arguments in action -- Merging your functions into one -- Using cfargument to combine your methods -- Creating an object constructor -- Creating an init() function -- The Variables scope -- Calling your init() function -- The This scope -- Summary -- 2. Effective Component Development -- Pseudo-constructors -- Using the pseudo method -- Suppressing whitespace -- Output attribute -- Pseudo-constructor or init() method -- Returning values and variables -- returnType -- Access properties -- Private -- Package -- Public -- Remote.

Getting information about your CFC -- Introspection -- CFC Explorer -- Component Doc -- Document your code -- Benefits of documentation -- Displayname attribute -- Hint attribute -- Description attribute -- User-defined metadata -- Obtaining CFC metadata -- getMetaData -- getComponentMetaData -- Returning metadata -- Detailed introspection -- Summary -- 3. Building Your First Bean -- What is a Bean? -- But what is it really? -- The benefit of using beans -- Creating our first Bean -- An introduction to UML -- Person object in UML -- What makes a Bean a Bean -- A default/no-argument constructor -- Easily accessible for introspection -- Setters/Mutators -- Getters/Accessors -- Completing our Projects Bean -- Calling our project Bean -- Populating the Bean -- Read/Write Bean -- Read-only Bean -- Helpful objects -- Implicit accessors -- Summary -- 4. Inheritance and Object-Oriented Concepts -- What is Inheritance? -- Avoiding code duplication -- Inheriting our products -- The Super keyword -- Overriding methods -- Instantiating our products -- The inheritance hierarchy -- Specialization -- The "IS A" relationship -- Polymorphism -- Composition -- The "HAS A" Relationship -- Implied ownership -- Aggregation -- Summary -- 5. Data Access Objects -- What is a Data Access Object? -- Creating a Data Access Object -- The create method -- Storing a new user -- The read method -- Handling select results -- The update method -- The delete method -- An alternative save method -- The save method -- The exists method -- Caching the Data Access Objects -- Dependency Injection -- Summary -- 6. Gateways -- What is a Gateway? -- A typical ColdFusion Gateway -- Creating a Gateway object -- Naming conventions -- Adding gateway methods -- Minimising code duplication -- Revising the gateway object -- Caching the Gateway object -- The Gateway discussion.

No hard and fast rules -- Table Data Gateway -- Similarities to Data Access Objects -- Combining the two patterns -- Which option is best? -- Summary -- 7. Creating a Service Layer -- What is a Service Layer? -- Facade patterns in a nutshell -- Creating a service -- Defining the User Service -- Adding the CRUD methods -- Adding the Gateway methods -- Adding an abstract class -- Defining the address service -- onApplicationStart (revisited) -- Summary -- Index.