First look at newBee - part 2 (instalation and basic code)

So installation of newBee is to simply copy the newBee (newBee application skeleton) files, or a ready developed newBee application and put it in a directory on a CF enabeled webserver.

Ok, for some (probably most) application you will be required to set up a data source, but that is not specific for this framework.

When you have copied the newBee application skeleton into a directory you can open the application in your web browser. You should then see something like this:

Having opened the site above you've in fact opened up a newBee application. Let's look at some code:

model/HelloWorld.cfc

view/mainpage.cfm

Here we see the entire model and the entire view at work. We have a cfc which has a function called HelloWorld that returns a string, and a view page that outputs a variable. We also see that the cfc and cfm file have no knowledge about eachother what so ever. This makes the code very flexible and reusable.

Next time we'll have a look at the xml files. As said earlier newBee is the controller layer between the model and the view, and the xml files is where you "instruct" the controller. Don't worry, it's not hard at all. Remember "Simplicity is the key".