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ColdFusion Article
Customizing the Eclipse IDE for robust ColdFusion application development
Roman Villarreal
Table of Contents
What program do you currently use to build your Adobe ColdFusion code and manage your applications? If you aren't using CFEclipse, it's definitely worth a look. This article will introduce and get you started with using Eclipse and the CFEclipse plug-in as an alternative IDE (Integrated Development Environment). In addition, I will briefly cover a few tools, such as the ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse. This is by no means a one-stop reference for the CFEclipse plug-in, but it should be a great starting point for anyone new to this environment.
Eclipse is an open-source IDE. By default, Eclipse is configured for coding in Java, but the CFEclipse plug-in for Eclipse provides an easy-to-use ColdFusion perspective with a feature-rich interface that can be customized with plug-ins and other tools. I will cover some of these features in this brief article and will also demonstrate how to set up this program so that you can start building with CFEclipse in just a few minutes—for free.
Requirements
To make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:
Eclipse
- Download (download the "Eclipse Classic" download)
- CFEclipse plug-in (update from Eclipse)
- ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse
ColdFusion 8 (any edition will work, including the free Developer Edition)
- Note: To get started, you will need to have ColdFusion already installed.
Prerequisite knowledge
Although this article does not get into coding, you should have at least a fundamental knowledge of hand coding with ColdFusion before using CFEclipse.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
About the author
Roman Villarreal is the founder and CEO of Lumenbrite Training, an Adobe Authorized Training center that specializes in hands-on training and application/web development for commercial, government and education markets. He is a teacher, builder and business man. For more information, please visit his bio on the Adobe website.
