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

Chapter 27. Creating Advanced ColdFusion Components

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In This Chapter

• Specifying Data Types and Type Checking 121

• Managing Components 125

• Working with Inheritance 125

• Defining Interfaces 129

• Implementing Security 131

• Using the OnMissingMethod Method 137

• Distributed CFCs, Serialization, and ColdFusion 8 138

• CFC Good Practices 139

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The previous chapter covered the basics of ColdFusion Components: how to create them, use them, store data in them, and make them persist. But you can do a lot more with ColdFusion Components. This chapter presents many of the more advanced features of ColdFusion Components, including inheritance, security, type checking, and serialization. This chapter also covers a few features of components ...