CFEclipse 1.3 Released! Be Coldfused no more.

Posted At : January 26, 2007 1:50 PM | Posted By : Mark Drew
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After a year of development, countless bugs fixed, a number of features added, CFEclipse 1.3 has finally been unleashed!

It has taken a while I have to admit, but we have finally released CFEclipse 1.3 onto the update site, you can get this release by using Eclipse's Software Update feature (help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install... ) and add http://www.cfeclipse.org/update/ as a remote update site.

There will be a couple more announcements over the next few days, so keep alert! I also promise to start writing about the new features in this release and the upcoming schedule of releases over the coming year.

As a side note, you don't need to be coldfused anymore!

(oh and thanks to Brian for letting the cat out of the bag before I was quite ready... serves me right for making you all so inquisitive!)

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Jim's Gravatar FYI - the CFEclipse.org site is all out of wack. Looks like it's missing a stylesheet or something along those lines. Now off to download 1.3! Thanks for all the great work!
# Posted By Jim | 1/26/07 1:56 PM
Jim's Gravatar Ha - it appears to be something with the URL - cfeclipse.org looks wacky. cfeclipse.org/index.cfm looks fine.
# Posted By Jim | 1/26/07 1:58 PM
Brian Rinaldi's Gravatar Sorry dude! :) Good work!
# Posted By Brian Rinaldi | 1/26/07 1:59 PM
Peter Bell's Gravatar GREAT job - very cool!
# Posted By Peter Bell | 1/26/07 2:02 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar Unfortunately you guys "caught me at it"

I was tyring to do a little switcharoo, but I guess once the news got out...

MD
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 2:04 PM
Peter Bell's Gravatar Well, still VERY cool - and I still loved the run-up campaign. Sweet
# Posted By Peter Bell | 1/26/07 2:07 PM
Brian Rinaldi's Gravatar As I said on a comment on my post, I didn't mean to steal your thunder...just was doing an update and there it was. You really did do a superb job of getting everyone curious. Some of the speculation was fascinating...
# Posted By Brian Rinaldi | 1/26/07 2:13 PM
Andy Allan's Gravatar it reeks of goodness!
# Posted By Andy Allan | 1/26/07 2:22 PM
Justice's Gravatar Thanks a ton for all your work Mark, CfEclipse is the only tool I use for development now inside of Flex Builder.

I hate to be negative on your release post, but I have the new version installed and I dont see any love for the 'large file open and auto-complete slows to a crawl' issue. I have a cfc that is 1800 lines long, and I usually have to write my functions in a different tab, then paste it into my large file. Is that a general eclipse issue, or is that cfeclipse related?

thanks again for all your efforts, I appreciate it!
# Posted By Justice | 1/26/07 2:23 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar That is a known issue with this release. Sorry...

http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/query?status=n...
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 2:27 PM
Dan's Gravatar Mark,
Congrats on the release!
# Posted By Dan | 1/26/07 2:28 PM
Mark Mazelin's Gravatar Yeah--I'm downloading now. By the way, cfeclipse.org is not rendering correctly in Firefox...
# Posted By Mark Mazelin | 1/26/07 2:32 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar Renders fine on my firefox... maybe it just disaproves of yours?
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 2:35 PM
Douglas Knudsen's Gravatar nice! a Good Friday after all! FYI, when you install the CF Extensions that come with Flexbuilder, a cfeclipse update site entry is created that is un-editable in the Eclipse update site list. This entry is not picking up CFE 1.3. I had to create a new entry using the URL http://cfeclipse.org/update to get it to work. I have no clue why, but thought I'd share in case I'm not a lone bozo! :)

DK
# Posted By Douglas Knudsen | 1/26/07 2:35 PM
Mark Mazelin's Gravatar Mmm, never mind. Restarted Firefox and seems to be okay--I think it was my Adblock Plus extension getting in the way... Sorry!
# Posted By Mark Mazelin | 1/26/07 2:39 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar @Brian: I now have much more admiration on how Apple manage to keep things under wraps! I am only one man and yet I managed to let it out of the bag! Lol!
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 2:42 PM
Sam Farmer's Gravatar This might only be my config but after downloading CFEclipse 1.3 I restarted Eclipse, opened a CF file and it was the old version. I checked Preferences and it had two CFEclipse's!

To fix this I closed Eclipse and went into /Applications/Eclipse/plugins and removed the com.rohanclan.cfml* folder, restarted Eclipse and it all worked fine. Just wanted to post in case others hit that problem.

Very cool release
# Posted By Sam Farmer | 1/26/07 2:44 PM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar Is there a list somewhere that shows whats new from this release and the previous one?

Great work Mark! We really appreciate it!
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 1/26/07 2:56 PM
Marcos Placona's Gravatar Well done Mark. I knew you were gonna bring up somthing really nice.

Thank you very much for your efforts!
# Posted By Marcos Placona | 1/26/07 2:59 PM
joe's Gravatar all this excitement for a 1.x release and a two page site? what's in the new version? I don't see a list of new features...
# Posted By joe | 1/26/07 3:00 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar I shall be blogging about what the new features are. Unforunately CFEclipse is something I do part time and I love adding features, dont love bug fixing so much, and totally not in love with writing documentation :)

I have been working on CFEclipse 1.3 for a year, so there has been lots of stuff in it, I will have to install 1.2.1 to compare!
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 3:02 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar @joe: well.. it was going to be many more pages, but I am still writing the content, sorry about that. Andy Allan has done an amazing job on the design and I have been doing the CMS for a while so its just writing the content which is the whole point of the new site.

Remember Joe, I am excited as I have fixed 50 + bugs and issues (36 I think showing on the trac site, but that is just since we moved to trac) and been working on this for a year...
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 3:05 PM
Aaron Longnion's Gravatar nice work! But before I attempt to install, what is the preferred method to update from 1.2 to 1.3? should I uninstall 1.2 first, or will simply using http://cfeclipse.org/update take care of it for me?

thanks!
# Posted By Aaron Longnion | 1/26/07 3:10 PM
Andy Allan's Gravatar Don't worry Joe, as Mark says lots of content to come.

You'll see the site sprout pages through the coming week :)
# Posted By Andy Allan | 1/26/07 3:17 PM
Michael Oddis's Gravatar I feel like I am going crazy! From what I understand the 1.3 release is supposed to have a CFUnit tab under the CFEclipse preferences tab? If this is true, for some reason the CFUnit tab is missing from my update. I removed version 1.2 of CFEclipse prior to updating to 1.3 and installed the plug-in from http://www.cfeclipse.org/update. Any one else experiencing the same issue?
# Posted By Michael Oddis | 1/26/07 3:27 PM
tanguyr's Gravatar Hi Mark,

Congratulations on the release of 1.3 - and thanks a lot for all the hard work you put in.

Quick question: i can't access the internet from my work desktop (don't ask). Is there some place i could download a zip of the latest release for "manual installation"? I tried downloading from the update site by hand, but all i got was a tiny jar file with a single feature.xml file in it...

Regs,
/t
# Posted By tanguyr | 1/26/07 3:28 PM
tony petruzzi's Gravatar excellent work Mark and crew. the web site looks awesome!!!!!!!

On a side note: I was right :)
# Posted By tony petruzzi | 1/26/07 3:33 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar @tanguyr: If for some reason you cant use the update site, I have zipped up the update site here:
http://www.cfeclipse.org/nightly/

download, unzip and treat it like a Local Update site (I havent tested this... but hell hopefully it would work)
@ Aaron: if you have a com.rohanclan.cfml.XXXX folder in you plugins directory, delete it. and then update.

@Michael: that feature isnt as ready as I would hope, so since its a separate feature OF CFEclipse, I shall be working on making sure the build has it in the future, WHEN ITS READY.
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 3:36 PM
rich's Gravatar I got this ugly error during install:

"resulting configuration does not contain the platform"

Until I shut down Eclipse, removed all folders under /plugins and /features that had "cfeclipse" in them, and started again.

Thanks Mark!

P.S. Looks like the cfscript copy-and-paste bugs are still there?
# Posted By rich | 1/26/07 3:41 PM
Alan's Gravatar Mark, well done on the release of 1.3

A word of caution for anyone using the Eclipse update manager -- it does not work if you are coming from something other than 1.3betas. You need to manually remove the old cfEclipse from your plugin directory and then install 1.3 a fresh. It trashed my settings, but after a wee digging around it was obvious what was going on.

Mark, am I to understand that you are pretty much the only developer on cfEclipse now? If this is the case, why don't you setup a PayPal Donation button and get a little reward for your efforts.

Keep up the good work.
# Posted By Alan | 1/26/07 4:43 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar @Alan: *cough* see top right *cough*
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 4:46 PM
Michael Oddis's Gravatar Understood! :) Thanks again. Excellent work and I look forward to future releases.
# Posted By Michael Oddis | 1/26/07 4:48 PM
Alan's Gravatar ok ... so who now feels the silliest girl at the ball?!?!?

very good ... although don't be scared to say its for YOU! Dude you've earned it, spend it on yourself and bugger the conference tour. Any good conference should be paying your expenses to come and talk.

stick it on the main cfEclipse site as well ... why not? I do not believe there would be one person that would complain.
# Posted By Alan | 1/26/07 4:51 PM
Teddy R Payne's Gravatar Mark,
Brilliant mate! I tested 1.3 on 3.1.2, 3.2.1 and 3.3M4 and it works fine for each one! Thanks for the hard work. =)

Cheers,
Teddy
# Posted By Teddy R Payne | 1/26/07 4:57 PM
Sam's Gravatar Mark,

I have to know how you fixed that cfscript bug... I looked and looked at that one, but I didn't know where to start, nor where to go once I picked a random spot...

What was causing it?
# Posted By Sam | 1/26/07 5:50 PM
charlie griefer's Gravatar @Alan: i had that same error...but there's no need to manually remove any folders. you can just go into:

Help -> Software Updates -> Manage Configuration.

All of your plugins should be listed there. Right click on the existing CFEclipse install and choose 'Uninstall' :)
# Posted By charlie griefer | 1/26/07 5:56 PM
charlie griefer's Gravatar oops...i meant @rich :\
# Posted By charlie griefer | 1/26/07 5:57 PM
Jeff's Gravatar If Mark is the only developer working on CFEclipse, and even if he isn't, shame on Adobe for not supporting this project. Without it, how the hell would anybody develop in Coldfusion? Dreamweaver or Notepad? Give me a break.

Adobe needs to either hire you full-time Mark or at least bring it in house and put some developers on it.
# Posted By Jeff | 1/26/07 6:22 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar |that could be an option I guess... anyway, I am off to the pub for some (I think) well deserved beers.

Have a great weekend! (err.. I shall be updating the site... fun fun fun)
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 6:25 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar @Sam: I dont think I did fix it... its one of the known issues with this release, as I said, I shall be blogging more about this release over the coming days. Dont have the time to just write all the documentation, website, code, build, update site etc and do my day job
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/26/07 6:26 PM
Sam's Gravatar Mark - quite understandable. Go to the pub. =)
# Posted By Sam | 1/26/07 6:41 PM
Jim's Gravatar Great job on the 1.3 release! The pub sounds good! Take it easy on the Babycham! :P
# Posted By Jim | 1/26/07 6:46 PM
Raphael Gerber's Gravatar Mark, you're a rockstar! Just installed 1.3 and it's excellent. Thanks a million for all your hard work, efforts and one of the coolest pre-release campaign!
# Posted By Raphael Gerber | 1/26/07 7:06 PM
darius's Gravatar Thank you so much for all the hard work.

I have been using it over the weekend and so far looks great. I did have one issue with the eclipse toolbars (not the CFML specific ones) not visible on one of my home machines so I don't have any cfeclipse icons like the word wrap etc. -clean did not help. I uninstalled all cfeclipse plugins, reinstalled and still not go. Perhaps I will have to start with a fresh copy of eclipse.

Question, where one should submit bug reports and feature requests? I have an issue with filenames / directories not alpha sorting in the File Explorer View. Also would be nice to be able to show file last mod dates there and maybe size.

Many thanks
# Posted By darius | 1/29/07 4:57 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar the place to search and *THEN* add bugs is http://trac.cfeclipse.org

I have noticed some people seem to be having problems... I need to check how they got CFEclipse, the site went down and I had to rebuild from a backup I had on my iPod (of all places) since I had just updated it the day before... pah.
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/29/07 5:01 PM
darius's Gravatar Thank you Mark

I got it from http://www.cfeclipse.org/update on Friday, notebook right after the release and main home system (the one with the issue) on Saturday or Sunday all Chicago central US time.

I also keep having problem with the Edit and Remove being greyed out in the install window for CFEclipse update sites I created earlier even as they are not in the bookmarks.xml file.
# Posted By darius | 1/29/07 5:40 PM
Paul Dale's Gravatar Congrats on the release, one question though: is there a way to turn off or move the CFML Basic, CF Flow, CFC etc tabs that appear in each editor? They're chewing up just a bit too much screen real estate for my taste where they are presently...
regards,
Paul.
# Posted By Paul Dale | 1/30/07 4:55 AM
Paul Dale's Gravatar Never mind - found it (Preferences:CFEclipse:Editor:Show Editor Toolbar) though it only seems to take effect on tabs opened subsequent to the pref change.
Cheers,
Paul Dale
# Posted By Paul Dale | 1/30/07 5:19 AM
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