View HQL in your ColdFusion debugging info
August 20, 2010
I just tried out the new to CF9.01, ability to write HQL statements in a cfquery tag and found that if you have ColdFusion debugging turned on, then you actually get the HQL outputted. Read more »
ORM Sample Blog Updated to CF9.01
July 21, 2010
The port I did of Mark Mandel's tBlog to hibernate ORM has now been updated to include some CF9.01 goodies. Read more »
EntityToQuery does not return a ColdFusion Query
June 22, 2010
You can't use Query of Queries with the result returned from EntityToQuery. Read more »
SQL to HQL slides from Scotch on the Rocks
May 31, 2010
I've uploaded the slides from my Scotch on the Rocks presentation on SQL to HQL. Although I've gone for a "presentation zen" style, I've added quite a few notes for the slides and attached sample code so I hope it is useful! Read more »
ORM article on DZone
May 28, 2010
I co-authored an article with, the very smart guy that is, Bob Silverberg for DZone. You can read "An Introduction to ColdFusion Object-Relational Mapping" on the DZone website. Read more »
Unit Testing ORM with ColdBox 3 and MXUnit
May 05, 2010
I've just started building a new site using Coldfusion 9's ORM capabilities. Being a good developer (OK, so I'm not but I aspire to be!) I created my tests directory and then hit the problem of how do I actually test Persisted Entities using MXUnit in a ColdBox 3 application? Read more »
Get a memento of a Entity's data
March 16, 2010
A question was asked on the cf-orm mailing list about getting the data from a persisted Entity (CFC) as JSON. Read more »
ORM and the Nested Set Model
November 12, 2009
Using hibernate ORM's HQL with the Nested Set Model for storing hierarchical data. Read more »
A bit more HQL
November 06, 2009
Yesterday I blogged the basics of HQL, by replicating the functionality of EntityLoad(), so you're probably wondering why you'd bother. Using the same set up as I had in my previous post let's look at some things you can't do with EntityLoad. Read more »
Getting started with HQL
November 05, 2009
Hibernate has it's only query language called HQL. I thought I'd put together some simple examples of how you can use it in your ColdFusion 9 applications. Read more »