Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 54. Development Frameworks

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• Why Use a Development Methodology or Framework? E507

• The Model Viewer Controller Design Pattern E508

• Fusebox E510

• Mach-II E519

• Model-Glue: Unity E532

• Issues to Consider with All Development Frameworks E542

• Conclusions E542

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Why Use a Development Methodology or Framework?

If you’ve been building Web applications for a while, you’ve probably run into this situation: You’re asked to work on something that you originally wrote many months ago. Perhaps you’re asked to change the way a complex set of forms works. As you pore over your old code, you’re bewildered. You have trouble figuring out which pages call which and why you did certain things the way you did. Sound familiar? ...