Designing and Optimizing a ColdFusion Application

This chapter describes the elements that make your ColdFusion pages into an effective Internet application. It provides an overview of application elements, describes how you can structure an application on your server, and provides detailed information on using the Application.cfc and Application.cfm files. It also describes coding methods for optimizing application efficiency.

Contents

About applications

Elements of a ColdFusion application

Structuring an application

Defining the application and its event handlers in Application.cfc

Migrating from Application.cfm to Application.cfc

Using an Application.cfm page

Optimizing ColdFusion applications