I was having a chat with a colleague yesterday about whether we should be storing our
configuration variables in a cfm file which is included in Application.cfm and stored
in the db and cache the query call from Application.cfm.
My gut feeling is to follow Sean Corfield's best practices recommendation:
http://www.corfield.org/coldfusion/codingStandards.htm#Anchor34
ie use the included file with variables set in the request scope. However, the
application we're working on currently uses something in the region of 100-200
application scoped variables. We're looking to transfer all those into either the
request scope or a cached recordset so as to avoid locking. The cached recordset would
probably provide better performance but is it good practice?
The app currently supports CF4.5+ though we're hoping to move it out of the dark ages
soon if we can put a strong enough case to our clients to move to CFMX.
I was just wondering what people are doing with their global variables. What do you
recommend?
Cheers Doug
