Sharing ColdFusion Components (CFC)

I have several ColdFusion Components in a Flex Library Project which I would like to share with several Flex / FB projects. is there a practical way of being able to to this?
Right now I includ the CFCs directory in the 'Flex Build Path/Additional source folders outside the main source folder' of each project, this is OK except that Flex puts the CFC's in the root directory of the debug folder which becomes a mess. Does anyone know of a better way of doing it, so that I can share my CFC components in a well organized way and maybe put them in a folder like 'cfc_components'.
Any ideas, suggestions, or tips would be greatly apreciated!!!

Thanks for the input and insight, it's very much apreciated!!!
You're quite right that you don't really share CFC's, I misused the word. I was hoping that I could've kept the CFC's in a library project and Flex (Ecclipse) would've been able to create links as it seems to do if you include their directory in the source path, but keep them in the same folder they're in and put them under the src folder instead of the root directory which is what it seems to do. I was hoping I had missed something and be able to do what I wanted to do.
The reason I was hoping to keep the CFC's in a library project is that eventually I want to shared them with others.
What I've been doing is put the CFCs in a main project application and the other applications, which are sub-modules, compile to the main applicaton's debug folder. clunky... messy... perhaps but it's been doing the work. Like I said I would like to find a way to shcare my CFC's without also sharing my main app's files.
Again thanks for the input.

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Are there any good answers to this question? My boss refuses
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>>My boss refuses to let me use
Coldfusion Components because, according to our sys-admin:
"using the components allows you to extend internal
ColdFusion functions.
This
has been identified as a security issue."
Your boss has no clue , your sys admin even less.
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cfml page. CFC's
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cfml page and
CFC are really the same thing (even compile down to the same
thing)
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word
'component' and are thinking more along the lines of MS
components that were
used with traditional ASP. Some of these components caused
security
concerns. But CFC's are not the same kind of component - this
is just an
unfortunate naming coincidence. They should just of called
them CF Objects
or CF Classes. Then your boss/sys-admin would never have
blinked an eye or
been concerned about using them.
Educate them.
"quaidbrown2" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Are there any good answers to this question? My boss
refuses to let me use
> Coldfusion Components because, according to our
sys-admin:
> "using the components allows you to extend internal
ColdFusion functions.
> This
> has been identified as a security issue."
>
> And because of this, he believes that he would have to
either not allow
> them
> or:
> "Define a security Sandbox for each developer. The
Sandbox defines which
> components can be used and which cannot."
>
> I have tried to read up on this issue over the past few
days but am just
> not
> finding the information that I need to address his
problems.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

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