Comments on: Will Adobe Announce A ColdFusion IDE At MAX???

By: Phillip Gagnon

Phillip Gagnon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:33:22 +0000

Unless they are planning on going the “microsoft” route. That is to say, the server will be free (like Railo or BD, or maybe just cheap), and the IDE will be where they make their money….

By: johans

johans — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:15:23 +0000

Would be nice to have Flex Builder handle CF as well – certainly seems logical given that CF integrates nicely with Flex apps.

The one downside is that Eclipse cannot write BOMs in UTF-8 files (it can read them). Which means you have to add processing directives to your CF templates – I wish they would update CF to make UTF-8 processing the complier default.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:29:05 +0000

Jeff – that is my one concern with an Adobe IDE – why would they support Railo/OpenBD – their competitors?

By: Jeff Gladnick

Jeff Gladnick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:20:16 +0000

OOooooh! That would be quite interesting, CFEclipse is due for an upgrade. This will also provide a nice market for Adobe to fill as some customers drop their CF servers for Railo/BD, but will still buy the IDE from Adobe.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:21:54 +0000

I do wonder about the cost.

We currently use CFE and have licenses for Dreamweaver and FlexBuilder.

If Adobe does charge for this new IDE it’s going to be tough to sell (at least here) when we have already paid for DW (but no one uses) and we have FB and CFEclipse (which work fine).

By: Dutch Rapley

Dutch Rapley — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:15:12 +0000

It’ll be an eclipse plugin, and will be called ColdFusion Builder (or something along those lines). Just like FlexBuilder and Aptana Studio(not an Adobe product), you can install it as a standalone app or as a plugin to a current eclipse install. You could even add the plugin to FlexBuilder standalone (which is, of course, an eclipse isntall).

It won’t be free. It’ll probably cost somewhere between $99 -$249.

CFEclipse has been quiet. Mark Drew, the Lead Developer, has recently been asked to take over the reins for Reactor (database abstraction framework). I imagine that has something to do with it.

By: Joshua Cyr

Joshua Cyr — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:07:03 +0000

I know nothing about any of it, and hadn’t even thought of Flex and CF IDE in one. Would be VERY handy though.

By: Deepthroat

Deepthroat — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:58:55 +0000

(A shadowy figure in a dark room)

I got to question an intoxicated Mark Drew at CFUnited ’08 about if he and Adobe were partnering on a new CF IDE, and his silence on the issue was deafening.

Also, I would assume that any CF IDE would be an eclipse plugin, which would work with any Eclipse environment, including Flex Builder. So there’s a couple cool features that are available when you have both installed… That’s really not much different than CFEclipse and FlexBuilder right now.

By: Tariq Ahmed

Tariq Ahmed — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:53:22 +0000

HomeSite CS4. :)

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:13:31 +0000

Charlie – I didn’t think about that but it sort of makes sense… But then do you get into the slippery slope of Dreamweaver where you try to stuff too much into one tool?