Defining the directory structure

Defining an application directory structure with an application-specific root directory has the following advantages:

Development The application is easier to develop and maintain, because the application page files are well-organized.

Portability You can easily move the application to another server or another part of a server without changing any code in the application page files.

Application-level settings Application pages that are under the same directory can share application-level settings and functions.

Security Application pages that are under the same directory can share web server security settings.

When you put your application in an application-specific directory hierarchy, you can use a single Application.cfm page in the application root directory, or put different Application.cfm pages that govern individual sections of the application in different directories.

You can divide your logical web application into multiple ColdFusion applications by using multiple Application.cfm pages with different application names. Alternatively, you can use multiple Application.cfm pages that specify the same application name, but have different common code, for different subsections of your application.

The directory trees in the following figure show two approaches to implementing an application framework:

In the example on the left, a company named Web Wonders, Inc. uses a single Application.cfm file installed in the application root directory to process all application page requests.

In the example on the right, Bandwidth Associates uses the settings in individual Application.cfm files to create individual ColdFusion applications at the departmental level. Only the Products application pages are processed using the settings in the root Application.cfm file. The Consulting, Marketing, and Sales directories each have their own Application.cfm file.

Version 6.1

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Comments

fstrevisan said on Feb 18, 2004 at 3:32 PM :

Why are all the graphics and drawnings missing, even in the local documentation?

halL said on Feb 19, 2004 at 6:20 AM :

There was a bug in the procedure that converted our FrameMaker sources into HTML.

AnoPres said on Mar 12, 2004 at 7:19 AM :

Is there a patch of the help files that includes the drawings? How about porting your development to RoboHelp?

Current page: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/appfra13.htm


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