Refactoring your legacy app to a MVC framework

1. Anant Pradhan
Senior Web Engineer, CUA
@anant105

2. This presentation is about:
 Refactoring code to MVC
Not about…
 ColdBox vs. FW/1 

3. Software architecture pattern
 Model: Business logic/database interactions
 View: Visual representation of the system
 Controller: Connects the model to the view

4. Advantages
 Separation of concerns
 Better Abstraction and Encapsulation
 Better organized code ‐ Code reuse
 Standardization

5. Disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body
of code, altering its internal structure without changing
its external behavior

6. Goals
 Understandability
 Reduced complexity
 Ease of maintenance and evolution
 Ease of debugging
 More reliable code

8. Light‐weight, single file, convention based framework
index.cfm?action=section.item

10. Event‐driven, convention‐based framework
 Model ‐> Model
 View ‐ > View
 Controller ‐> Handler
 Layouts ‐> Templates
index.cfm?event=section.item

12.  Framework One Wiki: https://github.com/framework‐one/fw1/wiki
 ColdBoxWiki: http://wiki.coldbox.org/

13. All CFSummit slides available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/ColdFusionConference
Contact Info:
◦ Email: anant@anant5.com
◦ Blog: http://anant5.com
◦ Twitter: @anant105