First look at newBee - part 3 (newbee.xml)

The way we "stitch together" what model part and what view parts play together is with the newbee.xml file in the config directory. The newbee.xml file is wher you make all conections between the model and the view, and works a birds-eye view of what your whole application looks like.

Let's have a look at what it looks like right now:

For now we'll look at the model and the view node defined under the event named "default".

The model node has a path to a cfc, relative to the model directory (you can use subdirectories within the model directory), it has a method, which we remember from the cffunction name in the HelloWorld.cfc code we looked at. And we have a returnvariable, which we see is equal to the variable we used in our mainpage.cfm code example.

Then theres the view node that contains the path to the mainpage.cfm file, relative to the view directory.

So we see that to instruct the controller (newBee framework) to connect the model and the view is very easy, intuitive and straightforward.