London CFUG: Mark Drew on Model-Glue and Reactor

A broad overview:

So tonight I went to see Mark Drew do his presentation on Model-Glue and Reactor. 

FYI: Mark used some software called snapz pro to capture the presentation; I think it will be on his blog soon... 

I think it was a brave thing to do, present two frameworks to a group of people who potentially had no experience with frameworks.  This aside he showed us how easy it is to get them both running and how to integrate the two frameworks together. 

One of the great things about frameworks is that if you’re not entirely sure what options are available to you, you can just dump the method objects and avowal a it lists the framework objects. 

One of the great things about reactor is that it writes most of your 'standard' sql and DB integration methods, and the ones it doesn't write you just add the the component that it creates for you, how sweet is that: Nice work Dough

Through using the dump feature mentioned above Mark created what he called a 'form utility' tag that used reactors metadata method to inspect the DB and create a form from that metadata on the fly.  I hope Mark can post this tag soon to elevate some of the pane from creating forms... 

Overall I think that if you've not looked at MG or Reactor then it's a must; I can’t believe that once understood, project developed will increase greatly.

So what is Model-Glue

Model Glue is a MVC (Model - View - Controller) based framework for ColdFusion applications. It provides a way to easily link your presentation layer (view) to your model layer by the use of controllers. Model Glue provides configuration and powerful control over over this "gluing" of your layers through XML files. Working along side it is the Reactor framework, a "Inline Dynamic Data Abstraction" API, which allows you to very quickly and easily access your database model without the need to write SQL or configure Data Access Objects.

Next thing... Method injection with Coldspring... HELP!!

Update:  Andy Jarret has a more indepth artical here