Chapter 13: Designing And Optimizing A Coldfusion Application - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

CHAPTER 13
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.cfm file. It
also describes coding methods for optimizing application efficiency.
Contents
About applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Elements of a ColdFusion application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Mapping an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Creating the Application.cfm page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Optimizing ColdFusion applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
267