1 vs many app.cfm

Question

Which one is better (see below) ?
Under the wwwroot dir I have 4 root folders,
MyFirstApp,MyFirstApp1,MyFirstApp2,MyFirstApp3 AND 1
application.cfm
Within each of these folders (MyFirstApp to 3), there are
.cfm files that represent different applications (they are directly
or indirectly related to each other)
Within the application.cfm, an application.dsn for each web
application (MyFirstApp to 3) is set:
The structure of application.cfm looks like this:
<cfapplication name="Test" sessionManagement="yes"
clientManagement="Yes" sessiontimeout=#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,1,0)#>
<cfset application.dsn1= "MyFirstApp">
<cfset application.dsn2= "MyFirstApp1">
<cfset application.dsn3= "MyFirstApp2">
<cfset application.dsn4= "MyFirstApp3">
So on my 1st. scenario, I have this structure:
wwwroot
MyFirstApp
MyFirstApp1
MyFirstApp2
MyFirstApp3
application.cfm >> this is the only application.cfm for
the entire web applications where all the application.dsn are set
I think the following should be more proper but I'm not sure
why or if it is even matter:
Can anyone give me some thought?
wwwroot
MyFirstApp
MyFirstApp1
application_formMyFirstApp_1 >>> <cfset
application.dsn1= "MyFirstApp1">
MyFirstApp2
application_formMyFirstApp_2 >>> <cfset
application.dsn2= "MyFirstApp2">
MyFirstApp3
application_formMyFirstApp_1>>> <cfset
application.dsn3= "MyFirstApp3">
application.cfm >>> <cfset application.dsn=
"MyFirstApp">

Answer 1

This maybe exactly what you meant, but to be absolutely clear
I would
write it this way.
wwwroot
MyFirstApp
application.cfm >>> <cfset application.dsn=
"MyFirstApp">
MyFirstApp1
application.cfm >>> <cfset application.dsn1=
"MyFirstApp1">
MyFirstApp2
application.cfm >>> <cfset application.dsn2=
"MyFirstApp2">
MyFirstApp3
application.cfm >>> <cfset application.dsn3=
"MyFirstApp3">
It is important that we are crystal clear that all the files
will be
named 'application.cfm' or more properly 'Application.cfm'
[this matters
on 'nix systems]. Application.cfm is the only file that will
be looked
for by ColdFusion, not anything named something like
application_forMyFirstApp.cfm
If this is what was meant, then I absolutely agree with it.
Because
this means that you now have four applications. Each with
their own,
required data and nothing extra. Assuming that in the
<cfapplication
name="aString" ...> tag, you provide a unique string for
the name of
each application.
It is this string that actually separates one application
from another
inside of ColdFusion's memory. If all four of those
application.cfm
files contained a <cfapplication...> tag with the same
string for the
name parameter, it would still be considered all one
application
according to ColdFusion.