FWIW --- The following text is quoted straight from the CFMX Development Guide that ships with CFMX7: <!--- How ColdFusion MX finds and process application definition pages ColdFusion MX uses the following rules to locate and process the Application.cfc, Application.cfm, and OnRequestEnd.cfm pages that define application-specific elements. The way ColdFusion MX locates these files helps determine how you structure an application. Each time ColdFusion MX processes a page request it does the following: 1. When ColdFusion starts processing the request, it does the following: - It searches the page's directory for a file named Application.cfc. If one exists, it creates a new instance of the CFC, processes the initial events, and stops searching. (ColdFusion MX creates a new instance of the CFC and processes its initialization code for each request.) - If the requested page's directory does not have an Application.cfc file, it checks the directory for an Application.cfm file. If one exists, ColdFusion MX logically includes the Application.cfm page at the beginning of the requested page and stops searching further. - If the requested page's directory does not have an Application.cfc or Application.cfm file, ColdFusion MX searches up the directory tree and checks each directory first for an Application.cfc file and then, if one is not found, for an Application.cfm page, until it reaches the root directory (such as C:\). When it finds an Application.cfc or Application.cfm file, it processes the page and stops searching. 2. ColdFusion MX processes the requested page's contents. 3. When the request ends, ColdFusion MX does the following: - If you have an Application.cfc, ColdFusion MX processes the CFC's onRequestEnd method and releases the CFC instance. - If you do not have an Application.cfc, but do have an Application.cfm page, ColdFusion MX looks for an OnRequestEnd.cfm in the same directory as the Application.cfm page ColdFusion uses for the current page. ColdFusion does not search beyond that directory, so it does not run an OnRequestEnd.cfm page that resides in another directory. Also, the OnRequestEnd.cfm page does not run if there is an error or an exception on the application page, or if the application page executes the cfabort or cfexit tag. ---> HTH... Robert Mansen Electronics Engineer WRALC/ITMS Bldg 301 West Room C09, Cube 20 Robins AFB, GA 31098 (478) 222-3156 -----Original Message----- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Application.cfc vs cfm Say I have the following directory/file structure: /root - Application.cfc - Index.cfm /subdirectory o Application.cfm o index.cfm My question is, since there is an Application.cfc in the parent directory, will the Application.cfm file be processed when calling /root/subdirectory/index.cfm, or will the Application.cfc be read? I know when a .cfm and a .cfc reside in the same directory, the .cfc is used, but I'm not sure about the above situation. Thanks, Ray
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