Application vars are Independent from Session vars?

[dichi66]

This excerpt from the manual, "ColdFusion MX applications and sessions are independent of each other. For example, if an
application times out while a user’s session is active, the session continues and the session context,
including the user’s Session scope variables, is unaffected by the application ending and restarting."

OK, how can an application timeout while a session can continue. I can think of ways in which this could happen (if the application timeout is very short), but for all practical purposes it really doesn't make any sense. The fact that a user is active in the application would, in effect, extend the application time.

[LL]

This livedoc may shed a little more light on the subject: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00001156.htm
For example, #Application.datasource# could timeout but #Session.username# could still be active.

[BKBK]

if an application times out while a user’s session is active
... then the application times out while the application is active. A contradiction, of course. I think the manual is wrong here.