Speeding up gateway calls

Question

In application.cfc onRequestStart, I've seen the targetPage
as /flashservices/gateway.
How do I utilize that to make the call use an instantiated
object to speed up access? Currently the only way I know is to
allow the service cfc to be called (instantiated) with each call,
and within it to call a scope resident cfc. I'm hoping there is a
way to use the application.cfc to skip the instantiation of the
service cfc for each call.
Obviously if there is a way I'd need to retain any passed in
parameters. Thx for any help.

Answer 1

In article <f64kcs$qcp$[email protected]>
"Chuck1411"<[email protected]> wrote:
> In application.cfc onRequestStart, I've seen the
targetPage as
> /flashservices/gateway.
>
> How do I utilize that to make the call use an
instantiated object
> to speed up access? Currently the only way I know is to
allow the
> service cfc to be called (instantiated) with each call,
and within it
> to call a scope resident cfc.
Remoting calls - like web service calls - always create a new
instance
of the CFC.
Are you really seeing a performance improvement by having
your service
CFC delegate to a shared scope instance?
I ask because I ran a number of performance tests against my
IRCbot
(an event gateway CFC - which is also created on every
request). I
found no noticeable performance improvement from keeping a
single
instance of the CFC in application scope and delegating from
a simple
event gateway CFC to that shared instance, compared to just
letting
ColdFusion create the CFC on each request.
You may be spinning cycles trying to optimize something that
doesn't
actually need optimizing...
It's also worth noting that CF8 has *dramatically* speeded up
CFC
creation anyway.
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