workshop: Advanced Transfer ORM Techniques

Mark Mandel has kindly offered to follow up on his last workshop next month on the 28th Nov, covering some advanced Transfer techniques.

Transfer's main focus is to generate and manage the CFCs that represent the data in your application, and it provides a slew of capabilities that work with this aspect and provide you with some very powerful functionality.

This talk will cover some of Transfer's 'extra' functionality above and beyond the basic Object Relational Mapping aspects, including:

Caching:

Transfer has a caching layer that is intergrated with it that can provide significant performance gains. How and why to configure it's different options, and how to use the various cache related methods will be covered.

Observable Events:

Transfer provides a variety of Events that it fires when certain operations are performed. By utilising these events, other CFCs in a system can be notified of changes, TransferObjects can be manipulated, and so much more.

Decorators:

If extending the functionality of generic TransferObjects is needed, Decorators are the answer, but there are all sorts of interesting ways to use them.

Transfer Query Language:

An easier way to write an application's Gateway SQL by leveraging the already built object configuration. Doing a SQL statement that joins three tables with one statement and six keywords? Yes Please!

Extending the previous presentation's Calendar application will also be used to demonstrate some of these capabilities.

When: Wednesday, 28th Nov, 2007 @ 12:00 UK Time View this time in your timezone

The URL for the event is: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/transferormAdvanced/

Again please post any questions you have below.