What is the equivalent of static methods in ColdFusion?

Question

In C#, I created static methods to help me perform simple operations. For example:

public static class StringHelper
{
    public static string Reverse(string inp         


        

Answer 1

Nope, you are correct, there is no concept of static methods in ColdFusion. I think most would solve this problem through the use a singleton utilities in the application scope that are create when the application starts. So in your App.cfc in onApplication start you might have:

Then when you needed to call it from anywhere you would use:

Yeah, it's not as clean as static methods. Maybe someday we could have something like them. But right now I think this is as close as you will get.