Need to protect page views from showing CF coding

Question

I am building an application for a client that involves a
considerable amount of cfml. I've spent a hundred hours building
and testing this code. I would like to somehow protect this code
from being copied (or downloaded) and re-used (or modified once
downloaded) by someone other than me. In other words I don't the
client cloning my code and making it work in-house. Not that they
would but... you never know who they may hire down the road. Since
I'm a novice ColdFusion user I need a simple solution. Protecting
on a file-by-file or directory basis would be great. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

ColdFusion has the encode utility that can be run on your
templates to
make them harder to read. The documentation will tell you
how.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/appSecurity_02.html
At the bottom of the page: "Note: You can also use the
cfencode utility,
located in the cf_root/bin directory, to obscure ColdFusion
pages that
you distribute. Although this technique cannot prevent
persistent
hackers from determining the contents of your pages, it does
prevent
inspection of the pages. The cfencode utility is not
available on OS X."
I believe CF8 and maybe CF7 now supports the ability to just
export the
compiled Java byte code for your application so you do not
have to give
the source code, but I have never done this.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/deploying_5.html#117556
Neither of these are full proof. There are known tools that
are capable
of un-encoding encoded ColdFusion templates and reverse Java
byte code
back into source code. But it at leasts inconveniences the
casual
sneak, just like locking your doors does.