Rick, One thing I do is to place a piece of code into the onRequestStart method to reinit the application variables. This will let you set variables in the onApplicationStart method and be able to change them without having to restart ColdFusion or wait for the application to timeout.
In you onRequestStart() function, place the following: <cfif StructKeyExists(URL, "reinit")> <cfscript> OnApplicationStart(); </cfscript> </cfif> Then, call your website like http://www.yourwebsite.com?reinit=1 This will allow you to update your Application scoped variables if you have them all set up in the onApplicationStart() function. Paul Paul Day Principal / Developer 410.241.8465 p...@nucomsolutions.com http://www.nucomsolutions.com/ ---------------------------------------- From: "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:31 PM To: "cf-talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Subject: RE: Trying to understand application.cfc... Thanks for the reply, Jason... Well...I swear, the first time I tried to set application.website inside onApplicationStart, I got an error saying application.website wasn't defined. Now, for some reason, it works. The only thing I added was output="false" as you have in your example. At first, I used: Any wrong or missing? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Fisher [mailto:ja...@wanax.com] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:17 PM To: cf-talk Subject: re: Trying to understand application.cfc... I do exactly that, Rick, and it works fine. All my app vars are set in onApplicationStart, except for the constants like 'name', which I set outside the methods: this.name = "myAppName"; this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(0, 8, 0, 0); ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336241 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm