Adobe Releases ColdFusion Builder!

by Judith Dinowitz, Master Editor-in-Chief

ColdFusion, the zombie of programming languages, often touted as dead but easily seen as alive, has a new weapon against those who continually try (and fail) to bury it. ColdFusion Builder, an Eclipse-based IDE tailored to ColdFusion, was just released. All the standards for an IDE are there: introspection, documentation, and debugging. What ColdFusion Builder adds that few IDEs have is the ability to write extensions for the product without having to be an Eclipse guru. Imagine — ColdFusion extensions for ColdFusion Builder written in ColdFusion. Does it get any simpler than that?

ColdFusion Builder's primary focus is ColdFusion 9 but it will work with previous versions of ColdFusion as well. Some of its features include:

• Code Assist and Insight for CFML, HTML, CSS and SQL
• Code Snippets (the ability to store pieces of code in the IDE and reuse them)
• Refactoring or the ability to change all pieces of related code in one fell swoop.
• ColdFusion Builder can now consume any (CFC) and generate data access CFCs
• The Tag Wizard
• Database and SQL Tools
• A Line by Line Debugger
• A CFML Template Preview
• FTP/SFTP Support
• Tail View Log Viewer
• Server Management
• Integration with Flash Builder 4
• Built-in AS3 / MXML Libraries for Flex 4
• AS3 persistence library for on/offline data synchronization
• Embedded AIR 2.0 plug-in

A Special Deal: Buy ColdFusion Builder, Get Flash Builder 4 Standard Free!

ColdFusion Builder is priced at $299, and comes with a free copy of Flash Builder Standard. As Sean Corfield notes:

"WTF? Flash Builder is $249 on its own! Yikes, they're pretty much giving ColdFusion Builder away at that price — it's a complete steal!"

For detailed information on the new features and to download, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/go/cfbuilder. Like ColdFusion itself, ColdFusion Builder is free for educational purposes.

Judith Dinowitz is the Master Editor-in-Chief of the House of Fusion magazines and journals, where she enjoys serving up ColdFusion and Flex goodness on a weekly and quarterly basis.

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