What is an object-oriented user interface (UI)?
Building a user-interface design (UI) with an object-oriented (OO) approach helps you achieve flexibility, simplicity, and return on investment (ROI). By creating building blocks for both the user screens and the back-end functionality, you can develop web applications quickly and also change them easily as the business needs expand. ColdFusion MX is a powerful tool that can help you build an object-oriented UI by breaking functionality down into visual and structural components that you can easily rearrange. Optimizing real estate and design layout. To focus on the user, I’ll explain the front-end design and then the back-end functionality. This section uses a screen that displays user account information. Visualize a design that has boxes that you arrange, much like building blocks. In this article, I’ll call each block a widget. Each widget contains certain groups of data (the data fields are green in figure 1). One widget displays user details, such as name, e-mail address, and pho
