XpCreeme Tip:
Coldfusion (Cold Fusion) CFML Application Scope Variables can't just be defined in the Application.cfc
If you do this in your Application.cfc:
<cfcomponent output="false">
<cfset THIS.name = "Name_of_application">
<cfset THIS.sessionmanagement = "yes">
<cfset REQUEST.test ="Request test var">
<cfset APPLICATION.test ="Application test var">
....blah blah blah
</cfcomponent>
When you try to access the APPLICATION.test variable from a page in the application it will throw an error that it is undefined!
But for some goddamn reason REQUEST.test WILL work.
You can define APPLICATION SCOPE variables with the onApplicationStart() method (along with most other built in methods) in the Application.cfc and it WILL work
Nobody points this out anywhere in the documentation or anywhere on the web and Im not sure why. Is it supposed to be obvious? I dunno.. but sometimes you just have to figure stuff out and accept the fact that that is just the way it is.
NOTE: I know i probably shouldn't be defining variables in this manner anyway but for little test setups sometimes you just wanna see if it works..:)