Summary

This chapter included information on application, session, and request scope management in ColdFusion.

You may also find it practical to perform logging, closing connections, and more in the end methods of Application.cfc. Here is a list of what was covered in this chapter:

• Application.cfc

• The concept of variable scope

• The various methods of the Application.cfc class

• Setting per application mappings and custom tag paths

• Use of the OnRequest() method

• Modification of our persistent application and session items in onRequestStart() and onRequestEnd()

• Creating persistent variables and packaging them up into classes wherever possible