# Quickstart

Why isn't there a book on Model-Glue? There are a few on Fusebox, right?

It's because there's really not that much in Model-Glue. Its purpose is simple: to let you write you application's logic in Object-Oriented ColdFusion Components, and then provide a way for you to connect a browser-based interface to those components. That shouldn't be a complicated task, so it's not a very complicated framework, and this isn't really a long set of documentation.

There are, however, a few things to learn: how to create an application, how to move data back and forth between the interface and your components, and how to control the flow of your application. So that's what we're about to work on.

This guide is a step-by-step guide to building a small translation application. We'll start with simple things: how to build a form, act on its data, and display results. Then, we'll see how the flexibility of Model-Glue's implementation of MVC and Implicit Invocation make modifying and enhancing your application a breeze.

Read carefully, there's a quiz at the end.