Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion® Applications

Fusebox and Frames

Regardless of whether frames strike your personal fancy, they can be a great way to create highly responsive web applications. Users can maintain a single page in their browser while only selected portions retrieve data and reload.

Implementing a frames-based application using Fusebox is simple as long as you remember the principle rule of Fusebox: All requests go through index.cfm.

Figure 17.2 is a screen shot of a frames-based Fusebox example.

Figure 17.2. Simple frames example.

The fuseaction that generates the whole page is main.buildFrameset. Let’s take a look at that fuseaction:

 <cfcase value="buildFrameset"> <cfinclude ...