Pat Santora (patweb99)

Mike Schierberl just posted a great example on why to user varScoper. It's a must read for those who have not fully understood the reasoning behind var scoping.

You can catch the post here:
http://www.schierberl.com/cfblog/index.cfm/2008/7/21/Thread-safety-and-the-var-scope--live-example

A little while back I created a small app that shows how you can use Spry Datasets with Mach-II. Since then I have made a few modifications to help show ways you can use other frameworks within the app (ColdSpring is used within this example). I strongly suggest reviewing  Chris Scott's example on AOP in ColdSpring if you need to know more about that subject.

I've updated my original example to use/do the following:

• ColdSpring to hold the gateway/DAO/Factory being used now.
• ColdSpring AOP is enabled to show simple logging capabilities
• An optional ColdSpring service injector using its built in createBeanDefinition method:
• found within lib.com.machii.listeners.BaseListener
• can be turned on from within the MessageListener (lib.com.machii.MessageListener) Line# 38
  NOTE: Turning this on will keep AOP functionality from working as my current code does not support working with AOP dynamically when working with createBeanDefinition

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Recently I have started to assist on a project that is meant to talk to Cold Fusion 8’s adminAPI to help with environment setups. One main task I have in front of me is to update setting within administrator through such methods as setRuntimeProperty and setCacheProperty. 

My issue has been that I have not yet found a good list of property names that the above methods need in order to work. So I started to dig and found the below property names. For those who use these method and know of other lists please feel free to post their locations as I would be more than interested to reviewing them.

I’ve broken them down by section and “friendly” location within cf administrator.

CF ADMINISTRATOR SECTION: SERVER SETTINGS – Settings

• [{timeoutRequests}] Timeout Requests after (seconds) [{timeoutRequestTimeLimit}]
• [{enablePerAppSettings}] Enable Per App Settings
• [{uuidcftoken}] Use UUID for cftoken
• [{HttpStatusCodes}] Enable HTTP status codes
• [{whitespace}] Enable Whitespace Management
• [{cfcTypeCheck}] Disable CFC Type Check
• [{disableServiceFactory}] Disable access to internal ColdFusion Java components
• [{secureJSON}] Prefix serializedf JSON with [{secureJSONPrefix}]
• [{globalScriptProtect}] Enable Global Script Protection
• Default ScriptSrc Directory [{CFFORMScriptSrc}]
• Missing Template Handler [{MissingTemplateHandler}]
• Site-wide Error Handler [{SiteWideErrorHandler}]
• Maximum size of post data [{postSizeLimit}] MB
• Request Throttle Threshold [{requestThrottleThreshold}] MB
• Request Throttle Memory [{requestThrottleMemory}] MB
  
  

CF ADMINISTRATOR SECTION: SERVER SETTINGS – Request Tuning

• Maximum number of simultaneous Template requests [{requestLimit}]
• Maximum number of simultaneous Flash Remoting requests [{flashRemotingLimit}]
• Maximum number of simultaneous Web Service requests [{webserviceLimit}]
• Maximum number of simultaneous CFC function requests [{CFCLimit}]
• Maximum number of running JRun threads [{JRunActiveHandlerThreads}]Maximum number of queued JRun Threads [{JRunMaxHandlerThreads}]
  
• Maximum number of simultaneous Report threads [{ReportThread}]
  
• Maximum number of threads available for CFTHREAD [{CFThreadLimit}]
  
• Timeout requests waiting in queue after [{requestQueueTimeout}] seconds
  
• Request Queue Timeout Page [{requestQueueTimeoutPage}]
  
  

CF ADMINISTRATOR SECTION: SERVER SETTINGS – Caching

• Maximum number of cached templates [{TemplateCacheSize}]
• [{trustedCache}] Trusted cache
  
• [{saveClassFiles}] Save class files
  
• [{cacheRealPath}] Cache web service paths
  
• Maximum number of cached queries [{MaxCacheQuery}]

As I find more I will update them accordingly, but at least it’s a start.