Migrating to ColdFusion Builder from CFEclipse

Mar 23

posted by Wil Genovese in Random Tools, CF Builder | 1 Comments

Many people have been using CFEclipse for several years now and are now migrating to ColdFusion Builder. Since both are Eclipse based products this is pretty simple, but there are a few things that will not migrate without manual intervention.

First start with installing ColdFusion Builder. (See this.)

Next lets import your CFEclipse Projects. You can do this and it is easy since it is really an Eclipse feature not specific to any add-ons. Right click in the Navigator view and choose "Import". The windows that opens give you many options for what to import. You are going to click and expand the "General" folder and then choose "Existing Projects into a Workspace" and click the Next Button.

If you are using an SVN and you plan to use an Eclipse SVN plug-in in ColdFusion Builder install that plug in before importing your projects, the import process will automatically reconnect the imported projects to your SVN(s). You will also want to configure the SVN plug-in to access all repositories before you run the imports.

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Adobe ColdFusion Builder Released

Mar 22

posted by Wil Genovese in ColdFusion, CF Builder | 8 Comments

Today Adobe released ColdFusion Builder 1.0. It's been a long time coming and a lot of people have been patiently waiting for this day. Unfortunately Adobe should have waited longer and fixed more of the outstanding bugs and painful performance issues. Then to add to the insult, the price was set at $299 but that does include Flash Builder 4 Standard. However, I still find it way too high of a price for a product that does NOT measure up. As others will note Flash Builder 4 Standard cost $249 so essentially you are paying $50 for ColdFusion Builder. This is great if you wanted to buy Flash Builder. Many of us never touch Flash so this is not much of a bargain.

Then there are performance issues. ColdFusion Builder is painfully slow when it comes to rebuilding project workspaces. It works fine for little projects, but serious enterprise level web applications with thousands of files and folders, such as what I work on, ColdFusion Builder is just slow or worse yet if just fails and throws errors. I've recorded this as a bug and nothing has been done about the problem as far as I can tell.

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