Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

Chapter 26. Building Reusable Components

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In This Chapter

• Introducing ColdFusion Components 77

• Your First CFC 80

• A More Complete CFC 91

• Components That Hold Instance Data 107

• Learning More About CFCs 120

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Introducing ColdFusion Components

An important part of ColdFusion is its ColdFusion Components framework. Think of the CFC framework as a special way to combine key concepts from custom tags and user-defined functions into objects. These objects might represent concepts (such as individual films or actors), or they might represent processes (such as searching, creating special files, or validating credit card numbers).

About ColdFusion Components

You can think of CFCs as a structured, formalized variation on custom tags. ...