Alright, now that I have my little Flex app ironed out (it's working fine now. Whew) I'm back to playing with CF8 and Mach II

I want to setup something practical for me and the kids to keep track of things, like groceries they want me to buy, stuff I want them to do, etc.
My plan, then, is to take this modified user manager app and modify it to suit my needs.

The following are functions I want to put into this thing:

1. Grocery list. This one's easy enough.
2. Chores for the kids. Aha! This one'll make it fun. This will require dates, time to get it done, when it was done, by whom, etc.
3. Track their homework. Since they underperformed this last school year, I want them to put in each day what homework they had, and when they finished. Yeh, it's micromanaging, and it'll be tedious, but they're smart freaking kids and need to do better. (plus, I'll have what they put in emailed to me.)
4. There's gotta be at least a fourth functionality I can add. I'll figure something out.

Anyway, that's my home project for now.

ok, so I was able to add a select element to be able to both show who was the default user (who's recipe it was), along with it being populated with all users.

Also, I had to be able to update the info.

Easy. I just had to add the notify-listener call that returned all of my users in an array in the showRecipeForm event-handler.

I then had to make sure that new table column, 'userid', was being selected, updated, and deleted in the DAO (not to mention the bean getter and setter)

Of course, I made sure things were kosher in the service layer, as well.

It's working fine, except that once it updates, it only returns the number of recipes on the showAllRecipes form, instead lf all. I believe that's just due to the bean still being in memory.

I may just have to clean things out once the info is submitted.

(what this means is, once my form is submitted, it calls my showAllRecipes method, which has userid as an optional argument. Since it's in memory still, or at least to my thinking that's the case, it's being returned by userid, and not all. When I refresh the page, it returns all recipes. I think I'll need a filter to be called before calling the show all method. I'll test it and see.)

Alrighty, so far, here's what I know (I believe) about Mach II:

Listeners simply forward to the service layer.

Services contain logic to pull data via either DAOs or Gateways.

DAOs handle single records, and CRUD related work.

Gateways return multiple records, and/or more complex SQL.

Beans are simply instances of single records, with getter and setting methods for each attribute the object may have.

I'm working on fiddling with the service layer on this sample user manager app. I've added a table, 'recipes', and want to tie recipes to each individual user. This should be fairly straightforward.