Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

Aptana, the people behind the Aptana IDE and Jaxer, have announced Aptana Cloud which describes itself as:

... a scalable Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring the most popular and widely adopted Web infrastructure, ready to use and ready to scale as you need it. Aptana Cloud also plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronization, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, mySpace and all other sorts of Web applications.

Its nice to see a variety of players in this market apart from the usual gorillas of Google and Amazon. It would be interesting to see CFML applications deployed easily in this manner in my opinion.

I also wonder if companies like Microsoft and Yahoo would get involved in this? They already have the infrastructure, of course, not sure how Windows servers would handle this!

Aptana Cloud is currently in beta and there is a early access request form if you would like to get involved!

I have been having a bit of a play with Eclipse's DLTK and Aptana to build two versions of CFEclipse, or rather a CFML editor. They are not complete yet (in fact, the editor doesn't work yet in either). And I thought I would put them up for people to see what I have done, contribute, play etc.

No, there will be no downloads as yet, its just source, so you have to build and debug it yourself, besides, apart from being plugins there isnt really a workable editor there yet. The part that is really missing from both is me hooking up the CFML parser.

The SVN locations are: Aptana based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/com.aptana.ide.editor.cfml/ DLTK based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/org.cfeclipse.dltk.cfml/

They both have readme.txt files that say which tutorial I have followed, but as I said, I havent finished them

After some investigation, I have also found that both the Aptana and DLTK can both use ANTLR based parsers, which I presume will be for most editors.

Mark Mandel did a lot of work on using Antlr to create a language parser and tokenizer which I havent had a good proper play with as yet. But it has been checked in and people can have a play. There is no documentation as yet, but will work on some of that at a later stage.

http://svn.cfeclipse.org/org.cfeclipse.cfml.core/trunk/

I havent integrated it yet into either of the projects as yet, but that will my next step.