ColdFusion Fusebox Training

Course Number: 310
Duration: 3 days
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Fusebox Training Overview

ColdFusion Fusebox is a powerful architecture for building ColdFusion applications that use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Applications built using the Fusebox architecture are easier to design, upgrade, and maintain that applications that use traditional ColdFusion architectures. This ColdFusion Fusebox training course teaches you the ColdFusion and Fusebox skills you need to rapidly build scalable ColdFusion applications using Fusebox.

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Fusebox Training Prerequisites

All ColdFusion Fusebox training students must be fluent in HTML, including text layout, image placement, hyperlinks, tables, and forms. Prior SQL and programming experience is helpful but not required. In addition, all attendees must have taken Beginning ColdFusion training and Advanced ColdFusion training or have equivalent experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This ColdFusion Fusebox 4 training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Fusebox Training Materials

All students receive a copy of Techspedition Press's Discovering Fusebox 4.1 and related materials.

Software Needed on Each PC

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003
ColdFusion MX 6.1, 7 or later - ColdFusion MX should be set up to run as a stand-alone server for purposes of the class
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8, or later
Microsoft Access or SQL Server 2000
Fusebox 4.1.0 or later core files for ColdFusion, as downloaded from http://www.fusebox.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=downloads.listDownloads
The Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.8 or later (downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/data/)
Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later
A minimum of 512MB RAM

Fusebox Training Objectives

To teach attendees the fundamentals of the ColdFusion Fusebox architecture and how to build applications using Fusebox
To show students how to design their ColdFusion Fusebox applications in such a way that these applications can be easily maintained and upgraded.

Fusebox Training Outline

Introduction

Fusebox: Framework or methodology?
Goals of Fusebox
Who benefits from Fusebox?
Common objections to Fusebox
What you'll really need

Fusebox primer

Circuits, fuseactions, and fuses
Circuits
Fuseactions
Fuses
Fusedocs
Overview of the key fbx_ files

Setting up a Fusebox 4 application

Downloading the files
Setting up a "Home" directory
Plugins directory
Parsed directory
Adding circuits
Adding fuses
MVC

Introduction to XML files

Why XML?
Writing well-formed XML
Introducing the Fusebox 4 XML files

Circuits

Overview of circuits
Determining circuits
Defining circuits
Using circuits
Exit fuseactions (XFAs)

Writing your first Fusebox 4 application

Globals plugin
Circuit.xml
Stepping through the fuseactions
Creating the fuses
Testing the application

Understanding Fusebox 4 XML files

fusebox.xml
circuit.xml

XML grammar

Overview
<include>
<set>
<xfa>
<do>
<relocate>
<if></if>
<loop></loop>

MVC design pattern

What Model-View-Controller architecture?
Understanding the model
Understanding the view
Understanding the controller
Is MVC right for my application?
The relationship between MVC and Fusebox 4

Fusedocs

Introducing XML Fusedocs
Detailed examination of each Fusedoc element

Layouts

Simple headers and footers
Adding in smart sub-navigation
Nested layouts
Accessibility concerns

Content variables

The role and use of content variables
Content variable modifiers
Content variables and segment layouts
Accessibility with content variables

Memory structures

Overview of memory structures
The fb_ structure
The myFusebox structure
The application.fusebox structure
Circuits in applications.fusebox
Fuseactions in application.fusebox

Fusebox 4 lifecycle

The core files
The request
Runtime
FormURL2attributes
Initializing the Fusebox working structure and API
Including the loader
Setting up the myFusebox.plugins structure
Default fuseaction
Updating the API
Fuseaction access
Parsing files
Executing the fuseaction
Loader
Initializing the application.fusebox structure
Reading Fusebox.xml
<parameters>
<globalfuseactions>
<circuits>
circuits.xml
Fuseactions
Plugins
Transformer
preProcess
preFuseaction
Requested fuseactions
postFuseaction
processError
Looping through the FuseQ
Parser
Executing the request

Plugins

What is a plugin?
Plugin points
Using plugins
Sharing plugins

Advanced plugin techniques

How plugins are handled by the core files
Setting up your plugin
Cross-phase plugin
Using plugin parameters
How to reference files used by a plugin

Exception handling

Exception handling using plugins
Distinguishing exceptions from errors
Exception handling caveats

Security

Security architectures overview
The permissions attribute
A simple security example
Using security in a fuse

Fusebox 4 shopping cart: an example

Logical structure
Physical layout
The model circuits
The view circuits
The controller circuit

Fusebox 4 and ColdFusion components

Syntax and purpose
Converting to a CFC model
Enhancing performance
The anatomy of a Web service
Exposing an application as a Web service
Invoking Web services
Additional considerations

Conclusion

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