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Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide
Self-Documenting Interfaces
Another major benefit of components is simplified team development and code reuse.
One of the largest impediments to effective team development is the difficulty in
understanding functionality written by another developer. Encapsulating functionality in
high-level methods makes sharing functionality between developers more
straightforward, since the developer need only understand the component's methods and
not the underlying implementation.
ColdFusion components further simplify this process through their ability to automatically
display documentation about themselves. By simply calling a component via a URL, a
developer can see information about its methods, the parameters those methods require,
and the results each method will return. All of this information is generated automatically
by ColdFusion MX and displayed either as a web page or within the Dreamweaver MX
component explorer (pictured below).
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