There are many situations when it is necessary to access a session variable from outside the actual session. You may want an administrative page to list active users or you may want to utilize a scheduled task to process data stored in user’s sessions.
While it’s simple enough to create a sessions structure in the application scope to store all sessions, cleanup becomes an issue and you’re really duplicating work that ColdFusion must be doing internally anyways. After some digging I found that ColdFusion MX has a SessionTracker class that it uses to keep track of all sessions and you can access it to!
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