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ColdFusion CFCs in our out of the web root?

The answer to the question above is very much a question of security. I am facing the same question at the moment, I believe it would be best to move all CFC’s into a globally accessible shared mapping. From here the CFC’s can then be divided by project or use, similar to Java notation for a package. E.g.

com.mybusinessname.projectname.object

Obviously moving these objects out of the web root would have an impact on any method within the CFC, that is being accessed as a web service. I found a handy comparison matrix on Adobe Live Docs for ColdFusion 8, that will help you when making this type of decision.