Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2 / Features
Time is your most valuable resource, and Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ 2 software gets you to deployment faster with a host of timesaving features. Quickly search and navigate code and automate many coding tasks.
Smart tab assist
Quickly navigate to the next logical tag, function, or control statement within your code using keyboard shortcuts.
Advanced find and replace
Easily search your application for specific tags, attributes, and text, regardless of file location. You can use regular expressions for more complex text searches.
Quick fix
Speed up development by accessing methods within a CFC that have not yet been created, and request that ColdFusion Builder automatically generate the method outline for you.
Intelligent code assist
Accelerate your application development with intelligent, ordered code assist for CFML, CFScript, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Integrated task management
Set "to do" and "fix me" points within your code to quickly identify sections and resume development where you left off.
Code insight
Introspect ColdFusion components (CFCs), database tables, and user-defined functions as well as built-in CFML tags, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to provide coding options.
Professional coding tools
Develop using a professional IDE that includes editors for CFML, CFScript, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, and CSS, plus customizable syntax coloring, statement completion, code folding, interactive step-through debugging, and snippet support.
Object-relational mapping support
Manage database logic and connectivity without writing SQL. Object-relational mapping (ORM) uses the open source Hibernate library to enable database-independent development. Then the ORM Application Wizard generates CFCs for logic without writing code.
Integration with Flash Builder 4.5
Accelerate the development of Flex and Adobe AIR® apps. Use Adobe Flash® Builder™ 4.5 to introspect CFCs and automatically generate corresponding ActionScript® objects. Also leverage web services.
Maintain the integrity of your code with smart features that help identify and reduce errors, including debugging features, preview capability, enhanced refactoring, and more.
Refactoring
Speed up your CFML application development thanks to automatic restructuring of code when you rename a CFC, function, or variable.
Application start page
Simplify running and debugging your applications by indicating a start page that should be executed first.
Integrated debugger
Reduce testing time and long-term bug issues with integrated debugging. Launch and step through applications directly within the IDE.
CFML file preview
Avoid errors and reduce maintenance work by previewing CFML pages before deployment. Quickly view rendered pages using the embedded Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
Tag editor
Minimize code errors and simplify long-term maintenance with the tag editor, which allows you to identify required tag attributes and assign values.
Take advantage of extensions, remote project support, integrated server management, a log viewer, and other features that streamline how you work.
ColdFusion framework support
Kick-start your application development using extensions for your favorite ColdFusion frameworks.
64-bit support
Install ColdFusion Builder 2 as a plug-in to any Eclipse™ 3.6 64-bit environment.
Application deployment
Save time by deploying code directly from the IDE using built-in FTP/SFTP support.
Remote project support
Improve team collaboration by accessing a shared codebase that is available to the entire team through remote project support.
Integrated server management
Automatically start and stop ColdFusion servers as you open and close ColdFusion Builder, or do so manually within ColdFusion Builder. Also, launch the ColdFusion administrator or server monitor in the embedded browser.
TailView log viewer
Easily monitor your ColdFusion logs in real time as you execute applications.
Service browser
Quickly access any web services available from ColdFusion.
Work how you work best. ColdFusion Builder lets you customize shortcuts, easily format and reuse code, and expand functionality with powerful extensions.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Create customized keyboard shortcuts, modify existing shortcuts, and import/export keyboard bindings to access frequent actions in the IDE.
Code formatting
Apply code formatting based on personalized, predefined rules to a project, folder, file, or block of code.
Extensibility via CFML
Expand functionality by creating extensions written in CFML. Attach menus to Remote Development Services (RDS) and projects, access the file system and data sources during execution, and expand code assist with customized code proposals.
Support for previous ColdFusion versions
Build and maintain applications for ColdFusion 7, 8, or 9 thanks to the inclusion of tag libraries for any of these versions.
Snippets
Save custom blocks of frequently used code for reuse in all of your applications.
The little things add up to make a big difference. Easily view database tables and browse and launch files from within ColdFusion Builder, making your workflow smooth and seamless.
Native file launcher
Open files in ColdFusion Builder directly from the operating system.
RDS view
Navigate the file system or view the structure of database tables for any data source registered on your ColdFusion server.
Local file browser
Browse your local file system from ColdFusion Builder and open any type of file.
