Galaxy does for components what Application.cfc does for directory trees, and more. Using an undocumented method of the application object Galaxy allows applications running in separate ColdFusion application scopes to communicate with each other, allowing large applications to be broken into collaborating sets of services that can either communicate in-process for performance, or remotely via HTTP web services for scalability.

Galaxy also supports thread-safe access to services, multiple service instances for performance, scheduled method callbacks for asynchronous processing, service versioning and comes with a console web view allowing services to be monitored and controlled remotely.

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