Version 2.2.4

Added a new helper method named getExternalBeanFactory() for use in your APIs. Previously, if you had created an external bean factory as a local variable in Application.cfc and set that into the framework as in:

var bf = createObject(...);
variables.beanFactory = bf;

... Then you would have no way to reference your external bean factory. This new method adds the canonical getter for that situation.

Thanks to @dskaggs for your time describing the use-case.