Q&A
| Q1: | Because ColdFusion's client-state management uses cookies, how is it any better than other cookie-driven Web tools? |
| A1: | There are several Web tools that support cookies, but in most cases these tools store all of a user's collected data in the cookie. ColdFusion stores the user data on the server and uses the cookie only for identification. This has benefits both in security and in speed. |
| Q2: | Because my users never actually look at my Application.cfmpage, how do my other templates get information from it? |
| A2: | A good way to think of Application.cfm is as an "included" file on each of your templates. Any variable definitions or parameters that appear in Application.cfm are implicitly added to the beginning of each of your templates as users ... |
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