FW/1 gives you a nice, clean way to manage framework configuration properties. They’re all wrapped up inside Application.cfc in a structure called variables.framework, you can read more about them here under Configuring FW/1 Applications. Our applications often have a need to use different values for these properties, depending on which environment the application is running in (development, testing, staging, production etc). An example of this might be reloadApplicationOnEveryRequest, which we want as true in development, but false elsewhere else. ... Read more

One of the things that FW/1 allows you to do is configure a reload “key” and “password” which you can use to reinit your application via URL. So inside your Application.cfc you might have: variables.framework = { reload = 'reinit', password = "mysecretkey" … } So you can reinit your application (flush the application scope by re-running onApplicationStart()) by calling something like: http://www.example.com/?reinit=mysecretkey The “reload” and “password” properties can be changed to whatever you want for securities sake. ... Read more