cfFrameworks Interview: Peter Bell on Lightwire and frameworks

Peter Bell gives us his thoughts on coldfusion frameworks and well as some of his reason why he built his Lightwire.  He also covers some principles of OO prgramming and AOP programming.

Peter Bell is CEO/CTO of SystemsForge (http://www.systemsforge.com) and helps Web designers to increase their profits and build a residual income by generating custom web applications - in minutes, not months. An experienced entrepreneur and software architect with fifteen years of business experience, he lectures and blogs extensively on application generation and ColdFusion design patterns.

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Lightwire

A very lightweight Direct Injection/IoC engine for directly injecting dependencies into singletons AND transient business object.
LightWire is optimized to create transient objects as well as singletons and allows for programmatic instead of XML configuration.
It is the lightweight DI framework for people who'd like to put more logic in their beans and less in their service layer.
Supports proper constructor, setter and mixin injection options.

Download
lightwire.riaforge.org

Some interview quotes

"a framework is a set of code and conventions that embody a set of options about how to solve a class of problems. if you don't have the code its a methodology, if you don't have the conventions its a library and if it doesn't have an option it's a waste of time."

"Dependency injection is about 2 things - configuration and communication"

"programmers are more expensive than computers"

"three letters, XML"

"configuration script and configuration data"

"write your own framework - it can never do you any harm.... if you've got a few hundred hours spare"

Other links

Iterating business object: PBell - CFDJ

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