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Adobe adds documentation to Eclipse

May 16, 2006 ·

Notice I didnt say CFEclipse? Anyway, in the latest round of plugins that Adobe has released, with the new CF/Flex Super Wizard they have also included the ColdFusion documentation under the help menu. This is great news for all you developers.

One strange thing I should point out. All these plugins which are labeled under "Flex" are actually very good Coldfusion plugins, the RDS data viewer (unless you are on a Mac, where you are stuffed if you want the Query Builder tool), the RDS File explorer, the RDS -> DAO/Active Rectod wizard and now the ColdFusion documentation. They are all branded under the labs as Flex and you have to click on the "Download Flex Builder" before you get to them. They are very handy even if you dont even touch Flex (like me)

I am now not sure what to do with the inline help for CFEclipse. If all the developers are using Flex Builder, and using all the CF extension/plugins then all is fine. If not, then we would have to deploy the CFHelp docs and add our own extension to go to the right help item. So you could then have two versions of the documentation, which is mad.

Adobe seem to be doing very well adding features to Flex (which are really very useful CF Features too). Now not sure if I should continue doing work on CFE, and just let them do it all.
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8 responses

  • 1 Jim // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    It sounds like the CFE and the Adobe Flex teams need to coordinate who's doing what in order to prevent duplicate work?

    Jim

  • 2 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    Well, CFE being me at the moment. I am just adding features that I need. Then again, you have to realise that Adobe can pretty much do what they like. At the end of the day (CF) is their own product.

  • 3 Mike Rankin // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    I thought that Adobe had committed to helping out with the cfeclipse project? I take it that there isn't a lot of participation on their part? What a shame. CFEclipse has been really great so far. Hopefully, some of the features can be merged/shared.

  • 4 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    To be honest, I dont know their stand at the moment. MD

  • 5 Jim // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    I agree! It's a shame that developers are possibly going to be wasting time duplicating efforts.

    Cudos to Mark for all the hard work - everytime I open Dreamweaver I thank you guys for CFEclipse :)

    Jim

  • 6 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    I dont think there will be much duplicating of efforts, but I dont see any reason why Adobe wouldnt add CFML syntax to FlexBuilder.

  • 7 Lola Lee Beno // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    Keep in mind that there are some of us who are underemployed and thus don't have a sufficient cash flow large enough to afford buying the FlexEclipse version (or whatever it is that it is called).

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