Trond Ulseth has written a Mach-II tutorial for Newbies and it's up on http://easycfm.com. It's a good article (though Trond mentions there were some corrections that didn't make it to the published version). Check it out and if you like it give him your vote.

Tracy Logan wrote to let me know that DataMentor has Mach-II inside. This is how Tracy describes the site and how they leveraged Mach-II:

Have you ever wanted to print out the Mach-II CFC documentation for those times you want to read on the bus, out on the deck or wherever? Up to now there really hasn't been a printable format for CFC documentation. I've changed that by adding PDF output to CFC.Doc. There's a link to the PDF of the Mach-II documentation in the Resources section.

Recently, there's been some discussion on CFCDev about service layers. My previous post talks about the service layer architecture in the Mach-II.info sample application.

Paul Kenney, the man behind CFCUnit, has just released Tartan, a service layer framework for ColdFusion. He describes it as



You can download the package from here. Be forwarned that at this time, (as Paul notes )the project is lacking in documentation. So you'll have to dig through the code to figure it out. You can also run it through CFC.Doc to create the API documentation.

I haven't had a chance to try out the framework yet so I can't comment on it. If you get a chance to test drive this framework, let us know how it went.

A lot of folks getting into Mach-II download the sample application I have provided and a common question is "What is the userService.cfc for?". I'm long overdue to write an article about the sample code (and unfortunately that is not going to change in the short term) but I did want to address that question.

As I was getting further into Mach-II development I wanted to come up with an architecture that would support a Flash/RIA interface (in addition to an HTML interface). The 4-tier approach using the service layer was the result. A blog post from Matt Liotta was the inspiration for this. It's a good read even if you're not implementing an RIA right now. You can read the article here.