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Debugger and other Eclipse extensions

Interactive line debugger

To help you see what's happening in your application as code is executed, ColdFusion 8 introduces the interactive line debugger. Use it to set breakpoints, step over, into, or out of code, inspect variables, and view ColdFusion log files. This is particularly helpful when writing code that does not produce HTML output, such as ColdFusion components (CFCs), SOAP web services, Ajax applications, and Adobe Flex™ or Flash® applications that use Flash Remoting. The interactive line debugger is installed as part of an entire collection of Eclipse plug-ins you can use when developing ColdFusion applications in Adobe Flex Builder™ or Eclipse.

Other Eclipse plug-ins

ColdFusion 8 also includes a number of other valuable Eclipse extensions, including:

• Flex and Ajax wizards to generate a complete data management application without writing a single line of code
• ColdFusion Log viewer
• Services Browser, which lets you browse CFCs, manage a list of web services, and generate the ColdFusion markup Language (CFML) code to invoke a web service.
• Database browser and visual query builder
• Eclipse Remote Development Services (RDS) support, which lets you access files and data sources on a ColdFusion server
• ActionScript to CFC wizard, which lets you create a CFC based on an ActionScript™ class file, and the CFC to ActionScript wizard, which lets you create an ActionScript file based on a CFC Value Object