Advanced Illudium Templating Presentation
Posted on Jul 16, 2009
Dave Shuck presented Advanced Illudium Code Generation to the DFWCFUG the other day. He offers a detailed overview of how to get started using my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator and even dicsusses some of the basics of the object oriented development practices in ColdFusion (like what is a DAO, Service, etc). He takes it a bit further however and shows how you can create your own custom templates (which was the point of Illudium in the first place after all) and even how you can create a template that eases the process of regenerating files when database changes occur. He does this by extending a set of base objects so that you can overwrite the base objects without worrying about overwriting your added code. He has shared these templates and you can download the zip here: http://www.remotesynthesis.com/assets/content/dshuck-templates.zip
Dave briefly mentions that I recently released an Illudium "connector" for the ColdFusion Builder's RDS DataView. This brings up something I have been meaning to post about (and will hopefully soon), which is "What is the Illudium project about in light of Builder?" The reason I originally released this project was because the code generated by the ColdFusion Eclipse Extensions was not customizable. At the time (many years ago now), the ColdFusion team wasn't convinced this was important to anyone, but the popularity of the project helped to prove otherwise. Now, with Builder, we can customize the included code generation and even build our own. I have some ideas about the new vision for Illudium but it tends to change day by day. I hope to post about this in more detail soon but feel free to share your thoughts...
View the recording: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p32018267/
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Posted By Dustin / Posted on 07/16/2009 at 4:18 PM
