Simeon Says

This problem began with me just wanting to use my pojo’s and not
have to worry about where they were.  With a little help from this post by spike
i was able to get around that problem.  With spikes code you can
load your classes from any aribtrary location.  Which is a cool
thing by me.  I quickly turned his code into a cfc so that I coudl
easily pass in the path and class and have it return the object for
me.  I was concerned though that when a class loaded by my class
was called it would look on the class path of cf.  This was not
the case, it loaded it fine, but I found another problem.  When I
used the example of a User object and a Phone object i found that the
phone object didnt get recognized as Phone.  On my user object I
have a setPhone( Phone myPhone) method.  So I create my phone
object, set its properties.  Create a user object and pass in the
phone object to set phone.  This would throw an error that it was
not the right type.  After talking with barney for a bit he asked
if I was using the same instance of my classLoader to load user and
phone.  I was not.  My classLoader had one function and it
created the object and ended its life for each call.  So to fix
this I created an init method which took the path to your
classes.  In addition to init I created a load method which just
took the class you wanted.  So now you create your classLoader for
a particular set of files ( you can load files in packages ie.
net.simb.User ) and call load on it for all the objects you need.

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Update:  Here is the download for the classLoader.cfc I created.