Did you know that you can specify in your returnType for a component method that it returns not just a component, but an array of components? To specify that you want to return a component of type Apple, you would normally do this:

returnType="Apple"

to specify an array of Apples, you simply do:

returnType="Apple[]"

You can also specify the same thing in cfargument. Here is an example:

<cfcomponent>

   <cffunction name="getApples" returnType="apple[]" output="false" access="remote"
            hint="Get me some darn apples.">
      <cfset var i ="">
      <cfset var result = arrayNew(1)>
      
      <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10">
         <cfset arrayAppend(result, createObject("component","apple"))>
      </cfloop>

      <cfreturn result>
   </cffunction>
   
   <cffunction name="setApples" returnType="void" output="true"
            hint="Just give me some apples.">
      <cfargument name="appleData" type="apple[]" required="true">
      
      <cfdump var="#arguments.appleData#">
   </cffunction>
   
</cfcomponent>

Note: There is a bug with the built-in component viewer. It shows the type as Apple[], and when you click on it, you get an error. I had planned to do some updates to the component viewer so I will fix that as well. I need to ask Macromedia if I can then simply package the entire zip. (Technically it would be a copyright violation, but I'd have to have to package up my changes as a bunch of things to cut and paste.)