Railo Server provides special structures that are available at different points in the request lifecycle. These structures are called Scopes and they essentially store the variables. You are able to read and write (to most of them) to help with the efficiency of your application. These scopes have names that are reserved in Railo CFML, so you can always make sure you can access them.
Let's have a look at some of these scopes and get an idea on how they work.
The Server Scope in Railo Server is a scope that is available to all your applications on a server. Hence the name. It also provides some interesting information that you are able to read. If we want to see what the Server scope contains, all you have to do is use the <cfdump> tag to display the values:
<cfdump var="#SERVER#">
This displays the scope as follows:
This scope holds information about Railo's version and compatibility, Java Memory and version information, Operating System details, System...