Does/can Application.cfc really operate as a well crafted cfc should? No that is not meant to be an incendiary comment it is a genuine question. In applications I have developed or worked on which use cfc’’s I have never created display output in a cfc, nor have i typically used cfinclude or cflocation tags in the cfc. What I have always striven for is to use cfc’’s to drive business logic and/or to extend other cfc’’s to that end.

I am currently with a client who uses Application.cfc and I was a bit surprised to see what they were doing in there so I dug around a bit and
found an article on Macromedia’’s web site and I can see where the client got their ideas from. The example does show display code in the cfc it also shows the use of cfinclude and cflocation. So I wonder can Application.cfc really operate as a well-formed cfc?

Here is the article on MM’’s site.