If like me you're unfortunate enough to have to work with Oracle and ColdFusion, you probably get sick of reconfiguring your data sources every time the DBAs move a database to a new host. It's the same problem that Oracle used to have with tnsnames.ora, and which they addressed with ldap.ora and OID. Wouldn't it be great if you could do the same thing with ColdFusion? Turns out you can.

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