[OpenBD] Dynamic cfc pathnames

[David Mulder]

In all our applications we have a global definitions file loaded into 
the application scope which defines constants containing paths to 
various locations in our application. Of course if we would be building 
a new application framework we could simply use dynamic mappings, but as 
I am right now porting an existing system that's quite out of the option.
    Now to the actual problem: ACF (and OBD as well) don't allow the 
extend attribute to be dynamic for a cfcomponent tag. In ACF this can be 
solved extremely simply (although ugly) by linking to a file in the same 
directory which contains a dynamic include, however in OBD this isn't 
possible as a .cfc is required to contain cfcomponent tags.
    Personally I don't really see a reason why the attribute would need 
to be "constant" in the first place, so if possible I would like to 
propose that that limitation is taken of in the first place? The last 
hour and half I have tried compiling openbd myself with 
cfCOMPONENT.java:156 commented out, but I simply couldn't get openbd to 
compile in the first place (I got stuck setting ant up correctly as I 
have never used ant before). Either way, if there is a real technical 
reason for the limitation than I would propose that at the very least a 
.cfc with an include could be handled "correctly" (in the same way as 
ACF does).

 David
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