Adjusting Timeouts Using APPLICATIONTIMEOUT
The Application.CFC THIS scope takes an optional applicationTimeout value. You can use this to explicitly specify how long an unused APPLICATION scope will remain in memory before it expires.
The applicationTimeout value expects a ColdFusion time span value, which is a special type of numeric information used to describe a period of time in terms of days, hours, minutes, and seconds. All this means is that you must specify the application timeout using the createTimeSpan() function, which takes four numeric arguments to represent the desired number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds, respectively.
For instance, to specify that an application should time out after two hours of inactivity, you would ...
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