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Simon Free
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What's the story with extensions?
- Understanding IDE_config.xml
- Context-menus in depth
- Adding an interface
- Digging into the data
- Debugging and deploying
Building extensions for Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta
Extensions within Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta allow developers with ColdFusion and XML knowledge to create installable extensions that interact with the IDE as if they were pre-packaged with it. Not only can the extensions be used on-demand through the menu options, but they can also be tied to actions that occur within the IDE, so you can streamline your entire development process.
An IDE is the primary tool in a developer’s arsenal. Since the first IDE was introduced long ago, there has been a low murmur of grumbling from developers, "it works OK but I wish it did…" For ColdFusion developers, at least, this grumbling is about to be silenced. With the introduction of ColdFusion Builder beta extensions, which modify functionality to suit anyone’s needs, developers no longer have to wish for functionality that doesn’t exist. Instead, using ColdFusion and XML, they can create it themselves. It’s time to stop wishing and start building.
Requirements
In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:
ColdFusion Builder beta
ColdFusion 9
Prerequisite knowledge
Experience with ColdFusion will be needed to apply the techniques covered in this article.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
About the author
Simon is an Adobe Community Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor, and a Senior Web Developer for e-bim.com. Working on several high profile projects ranging from a start-up athlete skin care shopping cart application to a full blown CMS requiring multiple workflows for publishing and editing several types of content, Simon has used many different technologies including ColdFusion, Flex, InDesign, AIR, Blaze DS, and LiveCycle Data Services ES. Constantly learning, Simon is always looking for new challenges and reports his findings to user groups and on his website.
