Contents Tutorials General Configuration Architecture Frameworks Flex

---

Tutorials

There are a few tutorials available on Transfer, and they are also a great place to get your feet wet when starting to get going with Transfer.

General

• 10 Questions for Mark Mandel on Transfer ORM
  This is a very simple overview of Transfer, and why you would use it.
• Doing CRUD Operations in Transfer
  This goes over the basics of doing simple Create, Read, Update and Delete operations with Transfer, from the ground up.
• Primary Key Control with Transfer
  This looks at the specific mechanisms that are available with Transfer for handling primary keys.
• Building an Application with Transfer ORM (Brian Rinaldi)
  This is another very good introduction to Transfer, and looks at configuring Transfer to aid in the development of the CF Open Source List
• Working with Transfer ORM: An Event Model Example (Paul Marcotte)
  Paul gives a good overview on how to use the Transfer Event model to provide basic dependency injection
• Using Decorators with Transfer ORM (Justice)
  Covers some the basic usage of Decorators with Transfer.
• Transfer ORM Quickstart (Paul Marcotte)
  Really good, quick n' dirty introduction to Transfer, to get off the floor and running.
• My Take on Transfer ORM Event Model - BeforeCreate Example (Bob Silverberg)
  Utilising the Transfer Event Model to set Created and Updated dates on Transfer Objects automatically.
• Dynamic Datasources With Transfer - Using a Datasource Bean Instead of the Datasource.xml (Tom de Manincor)
  Tom extends the Transfer Configuration bean, so he is able to provide dynamic datasources with his own Datasource bean.
• Quick Fix - Transfer and Reserverd Words (Tom de Manincor)
  Tom discusses using SQL reserved words as object names
• Using Transfer Metadata to Create a Memento (Bob Silverberg)
  Bob discusses how to use the Transfer meta data to generate memento's off of TransferObjects in a supported way.
• Managing the Transfer Cache with Clones (Dan Short)
  Dan looks at how he has used cloning to when using his objects.

Configuration

• Of Views and Models and Working With Transfer ORM (Paul Marcotte)
  Paul discusses the pro's and con's of onetomany vs manytooone and the impacts that can have.
• More on CFLib updates (Transfer Specifics) (Ray Camden)
  Ray discusses how an ill-set onetomany caused his initial cflib re-development to be super slow.
• Building Business Objects with Transfer (Jon Messer)
  Jon presents Amcom's model for using Transfer, and how they went about configuring it for their needs.

Architecture

• How I Use Transfer - Part I - Introduction
  How I Use Transfer - Part II - Model Architecture
  How I Use Transfer - Part III - Abstract Objects
  How I Use Transfer - Part IV - My Abstract Service Object
  How I Use Transfer - Part V - A Concrete Service Object
  How I Use Transfer - Part V.1 - A Comment and Response
  How I Use Transfer - Part VI - My Abstract Gateway Object
  How I Use Transfer - Part VII - A Concrete Gateway Object
  How I Use Transfer - Part VIII - My Abstract Transfer Decorator Object - Simple Methods
  How I Use Transfer - Part IX - My Abstract Transfer Decorator Object - The Populate Method
  How I Use Transfer - Part X - My Abstract Transfer Decorator Object - Validations (Bob Silverburg) Bob takes us through a basic breakdown of the architecture that he uses when developing with Transfer.

Frameworks

• Setting up and using Transfer within fusebox via the Transfer lexicons (Nick Tong)
  Setting up Transfer within fusebox via the Transfer lexicons
• Objects and Composition Part 3 - Using Transfer (Brian Rinaldi)
  Brian discussed how to set up and start using Transfer, with some ColdSpring thrown into the mix
• My Transfer Decorator Bean Injector Observer Is Now Available
  More ColdSpring Goodness: Updated TDOBeanInjectorObserver and Release of BeanInjector (Brian Kotek)
  Brian discusses how you can use his TDOBeanInjectorObserver in combination with ColdSpring to provide very flexible Dependency Injection
• Unit Testing Transfer Decorators with CFCUnit, BeanInjector, and ColdMock (Brian Kotek)
  Brian discusses how you might go about Unit Testing a Decorator with CFCUnit and ColdMock
• Coldbox, ColdSpring, and Transfer - Dynamic Datasource Support (Tom de Manincor)
  Tom uses his exteded Configuration bean with ColdBox to provide dynamic datasources
• Better Living Through Transfer and ColdSpring (Sean Corfield)
  Sean explains how they use Transfer, ColdSpring and Brian Kotek's TDOBeanInjectorObserver to hook it all together.

Flex

• Transfer ORM and Flex (Ben Yee) Ben talks about how he wires up Transfer and Flex together.