Problem solving Coldspring

I had been experiencing a little problem with my ColdSpring code. It took me three attempts to see what the problem was. I had been coldspringing a couple services in our main application, meaning i was removing the object creation code from the services, and placing in the ColdSpring container. The trend chart has a service, DAO and Gateway object. The trend chart also uses questions from assessment exams - the question object has its own service, bean, DAO, and Gateway. The trend chart service has a dependency on all three of these other objects or collaborators, trendDAO, trendGateway and QuestionService.

I first created the 'beans' for the question then for the trend chart. Then i wired up the questionService with a reference to the questionGateway and the trendService with the trendDAO, trendGateway and questionService.

Once the wiring was done, i went about setting up the service objects to allow them to be injected . Starting with the questionService, i added a setQuestionGateway method - thats the object that the questionService is dependent upon and the services file is trying to inject during the questionService creation. Then i added three setter methods to the trendService, setTrendDAO, setTrendGateway and setQuestionService - these three dependent objects are injected when the trendService is created.

Once this was completed, i was getting an annoying init() method error in my trendService object upon creation...hmmmm. I looked at this over a couple days, tried messing with the services file definition and with the depend objects but to no avail. After my vacation, i opened the offending trendService file and almost immediatly saw that my service was extending a the listener class. Opps! - The service does not extend a listner class, its not a listener. Once i removed that, it exposed another small error, which was a pathing problem to one of the dependent cfcs. Now thats its cleared up, its so obvious and reminds me to not be careless with cutting and pasting and typing.

Finally, once the wiring was working, i removed the init() method from both of the service objects, i had commented them out during this phase - since all the initialization is not handled by ColdSpring. Thats the payoff - there is less coupling and knowledge sprinkling between the collaborators.

Moving on to ColdSpring ize more objects....