When should cfthread be used?

Question

Would you please give a simple scenario where threading is necessary? Thank you, Nich

Answer 1

I used it in a situation where we needed to initiate some back end data processing to tabulate data prior to the user executing some reports. So after login we would fire off a task using cfthread to build the warehouse data for the user. Worked great!

So think of cfthread as a way to execute an asynchronous task on demand. Extremely useful in the right situation!