ColdSpring and Dependency Injection for the beginner part 1
First off let me caveat this post by saying that I am no an OO guru, if you are looking for a more indepth look at DI, IOC, Constructors, setters/getter etc then you should really check out sites like Peter Bells site, Application Generation.
Ok, I am going to make this first post small (I know, I know boring chat first code later) and just give a little background in preparation for the next part which will be the code (I promise). This post also isn't for the total beginner to Coldspring. Really at this point you should know why you want to use Dependency Injections(DI) and roughly understand or know the benefits when it comes to a ColdSpring.xml file. If you are looking for an introduction to ColdSpring go to the docs section of the CS site, honestly they are really good and the introduction explains a lot.
So, you should know that ColdSpring is an inversion-of-control framework for CFCs. What does this mean, it handles dependencies. For example, if you have a userService that needs (depends on) an userDAO instead of having to initiate the components(beans) via CF code in the right order like:
