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Thursday 1 November 2007

Access other application scopes

In one of our projects, it was necessary to access application scope variables stored in a different application than the current one for security reasons. After some research I came accross this posting, which covers the technique to do exactly this: http://www.lynchconsulting.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2006/10/23/Hacking-the-application-scope-in-CFMX
var oApp = createObject("java","coldfusion.runtime.ApplicationScopeTracker");
var applications = oApp.getApplicationKeys();
Of course, this is an undocumented feature and who knows if it will still work in the next CF version, but it's good to know that it is possible ;-)

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