Transfer is a ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping library that was designed to make your life easier by automating and abstracting the maintenance and translation of your object-oriented applications to your data. It does this by generating CFC’s chock full of the kind of CRUD that developers usually hate to write. Aside from the promise of never writing another getter or setter, Transfer also boasts a host of higher level features such as a robust caching mechanism, event handling, and a basic query scripting language.

In this presentation I hope to show you the strength, versatility and ease of Transfer via a number of small examples from a simple shopping site. I’ll also examine some of the problems I ran into with Transfer (and Object Relational Mapping in general) that may help programmers evenly evaluate this tool.

You can download the latest stable release from RIAForge (http://transfer.riaforge.org/ ) and you can find links to documentation and bleeding edge releases at creator Mark Mandel’s website ( http://www.compoundtheory.com/ ).

-Joe Zack