Transfer is Cool

Brian Rinaldi has written up a tutorial that's also good introduction to the framework.

Transfer is configured with a few XML files (rather than using introspection as Reactor does), which is a little more work up front than Reactor. But what i read is that Brian's Illudium PU-36 Code Generator can handle creating the XML files for you. I haven't had a chance to try that yet tho'.

I'm finding it very easy to get up to speed using the framework. And it provides an easy way to extend the functionality of its generated Transfer Objects via the use of decorators. Sounds complex, but it's not. You just write a CFC with the added functions you want in your Transfer Object, and glue them together in the tranfer.xml config file using the decorator attribute of the object tag.

There's a lot of functionality in Transfer that i haven't even explored yet. It's at a 0.6 release, but seems very solid to me somehow. So i'm giving it a complete go with an eye to putting it to work in a production site.