From ColdFusion 11 onwards, you may use THIS.DATASOURCES in Application.cfc – or, equivalenty, the Datasources attribute in Application.cfm – to create a datasource. ( Application.cfc is the recommended file to use, so we shall not consider Application.cfm in what follows. )

THIS.DATASOURCES is a struct. So, how do know which keys it contains? The purpose of this blog post is to answer that question. .