Application-wide datasource in Railo

Another one of those features that I knew was is in CF 9 but didn't know was in Railo and thats Application wide datasource name.

What this means is that in your Application.cfc (NOT .cfm!) you can set a per-application datasoure which lets you ommit the "datasource" attribute in your <cfquery> tags.

Your Application.cfc

<cfcomponent displayname="Application.cfc"><cfscript>  // Set the application name this.name = "myApp" & hash(getCurrentTemplatePath())    // Set the datasource this.datasource = "myDSN";  </cfscript></cfcomponent>

Your test.cfm page

<cfquery name="qry"> SELECT * FROM yourTable </cfquery> <cfdump var="#qry#" label="Query Dump">