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Wanna see something really cool? Todd Sharp over at released a project today called cfcFlexplorer. This is a very cool Flex ColdFusion based application used for CFC introspection and testing. According to Todd’s blog post:

With cfcFlexplorer you simply modify an xml file which contains two variables: the server root directory and the directory from which to begin crawling for CFCs. Once the application recurses the directories, it returns all CFCs (except application.cfc's and anything under cfide) into a navigation tree. From there you can navigate through the tree, selecting any component that you would like to see further information on. When a component is selected, the 'methods' grid is populated with all of the methods within that component. When a method is selected, all of the associated parameters for that method are populated into the 'parameters' grid. The parameters grid contains an addional editable column called 'value' which allows you to populate test values and invoke the component. When invoked, the application opens a new window which will dump the results of the call (if applicable). If your component has an init constructor, a checkbox is automatically populated and the init() function is called prior to invoking your component so that any necessary instance data is available to your call. (Note: If your constructor requires parameters, populate those in the param grid prior to calling your function).

Check out Todd’s post for more information or his new project site at RIAForge.

Good Day!
Ryan

P.S. Todd is also getting some good press, check out these posts from Ben Forta and Ray Camden.