upgrade to model-glue unity complete

Posted At : January 14, 2008 7:03 AM | Posted By : johann
Related Categories: coldfusion,model-glue

Last week, my team had Joe Rinehart come to help us upgrade to Model-Glue Unity and to have him experience, if only for five days, a real Minnesota winter!

The application that I work on just plain worked on Model-Glue 2.0! Once we changed the mapping to the new Model-Glue Unity directory, but, because we did not want it to be a legacy application, we moved it to use the Unity core.

Some things I REALLY like about Model-Glue 2.0 (Unity).

1. The new <include /> tag in the ModelGlue.xml file rocks! Before, we had to use the <!ENTITY> tag for including other XML files into the base file. We also had to use ANT to change the pathing when it was pushed to production. No more thanks to the <include /> tag!

2. Having Model-Glue use an already existing ColdSpring bean factory! In the index.cfm page use the built-in configuration setting for Model-Glue like this: <cfset ModelGlue_PARENT_BEAN_FACTORY = application.myBeanFactory />. I load up ColdSpring in my Application.cfc and just have Model-Glue load itself into that same bean factory, and now it also has access to all of the beans in that bean factory!

3. And finally, I like that Model-Glue uses ColdSpring to configure itself and load itself into memory. To me it just makes more sense and rather than have a separate set of config settings, why not use ColdSpring to do it for you!

So now, my application has been migrated to Model-Glue Unity and the regression testing is going very well, actually I have not found one issue with the upgrade. As we are probably one of the last teams to upgrade to Model-Glue Unity, none of this will shock anyone, but if there are others out there who have not upgraded, it is worth the little time it takes to do the upgrade.

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Nice!

ModelGlue:Unity is a phenomenal framework. Glad to see you are loving it.

DW

# Posted By Dan Wilson | 1/14/08 8:40 AM

@Dan Wilson,
its good framework but not really a phenomenal framework.
I would suggest check ColdBox... its documentation and features speaks itself.

# Posted By Sam | 1/14/08 11:05 AM

@Sam: As this post is about a Model-Glue upgrade, is it really appropriate to push other frameworks here? I mean it just seems off topic and pushy to me. Not that I'm biased. ;)

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 1/15/08 6:26 AM

@Sam - As an avid supporter of ColdBox myself, I take offense to your decision to post what amounts to spam on other people's blogs. There is an appropriate way to "spread the word", and there is an inappropriate way. You, sir, have chosen the latter.

@Ray - Precisely.

# Posted By Matt Quackenbush | 1/15/08 5:07 PM

@Sam, your favorite framework is up to you, but if you define phenomenal as "of or pertaining to phenomena" as does Dictionary.com, Model Glue certainly has created a phenomenon within the ColdFusion community with rapid growth and rise in popularity. I suppose ColdBox has too. They're just opinions, chill out!

# Posted By Rachel | 3/3/08 4:25 PM

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