Eclipse 3.3 and the ColdFusion Extensions for Eclipse

Posted At : August 17, 2007 10:10 AM
Related Categories: ColdFusion,Eclipse

We found an issue right after sending the images to manufacturing with Eclipse 3.3 and the CF Extensions. Apparently somewhere between M3 and M7 they changed something internally which caused the RDS Query Viewer to not work properly. We fixed this as soon as we found it, but by then it was too late to get on the DVD's for CF8. But some of you, and I know you're out there, will be using Eclipse 3.3. So... if you download this version, you can use the Query Viewer in 3.3 as well. Follow the same install instructions as before, but the Query Viewer will now work properly again. Woohoo!

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Not to sound ungrateful, but why don't you host the extension on an adobe server, and set it up to use the auto updating mechanisms built into eclipse? It would make installing such updates quite a breeze...

# Posted By Sam Curren | 8/17/07 1:09 PM

And if that is too much trouble, why not see if the cfeclipse group would host it.

# Posted By Mike Rankin | 8/17/07 6:05 PM

@Sam: Exactly !
1) downloading from .adobe.com looks much better
2) the eclipse-builtin update system is there for *exactly* this reason.

# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 8/20/07 5:52 AM

I think you guys are missing the point of this. I can't go back in time and make adobe give me an update site. I tried that a long time ago, and at that point they were unwilling. Now with it out in the wild it's too late for the existing plugin to add it. Maybe in the future, not currently.

All I was trying to do was help y'all out. I could have not asked permission to release anything and left everyone holding the bag, but I feel that that would be the wrong thing to do.

Eventually this will also be posted on adobe.com as well for download. In the mean time, though, I thought I would give you a break and let you have access to it earlier. Try to not look a gift horse in the mouth, I guess.

# Posted By Dean Harmon | 8/20/07 9:46 AM

Dean, we do appreciate your work.

It can be difficult to know sometimes if Adobe folks such as yourself are doing the work and speaking personally, or from the company. It might help us know the difference if you mention during a post that you did something personally or if it is a company action, or that the company has future plans, but you wanted to release it now to be nice.

Please keep up the good work, and please keep blogging!

# Posted By Sam Curren | 8/20/07 5:59 PM

THANK YOU.

I have a love hate relationship with Eclipse. It is an awesome tool but it reminds me of the bad old days of Linux where you can get caught in a black hole of dependency hell. Some times it works and some times it doesn't and you are never quite sure why....

# Posted By Cozmo | 8/21/07 10:29 AM

Unfortunately, the wizard is as good as unusable. Every single time I've tried to use it, I came accross several bugs in the generated source code... I cannot imagine that anyone is capable of using the wizard outside of the ART/ARTISTS demo.

# Posted By Wim | 8/23/07 9:42 AM

Hi,
I can't seem to get the install of ColdFusion_Extensions_for_Eclipse.zip to work.

I have tried
Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install
Search for New features
New archived site (pointed it to the zip file)
Then I get an error: "No features found on the selected site(s). Choose a different site or site category."

Can someone offer any advice?

# Posted By Scott Thornton | 8/30/07 7:58 AM

Uncheck 'ignore features not applicable' ?

# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 8/30/07 1:28 PM

success, thanks tom

# Posted By Scott Thornton | 8/31/07 5:18 AM

Thank you, thank you thank you.

I work on a number of remote applications where the DB is not easily accessible. Sometimes the only way I can get to it is through rds.

You are a life saver.

# Posted By Tim Heald | 8/31/07 9:12 AM

Just curious - have these fixes been rolled over to the Adobe site yet??

Jim

# Posted By Jim Priest | 9/4/07 5:06 PM

Dean,

Thank you for the videos and thank you big time for the updated extensions!

Is it a known issue that they will not work with an Access database?

I am an instructor and for various reasons Access is the database we use, just like the Adobe CF curriculums.

The code generated by the extensions pulls data OK but an attempt to update (a simple 1 field 3 row table with datatype string) throws the following error posted below my sig.

Thanks again!

Art

P.S. Will you be at Max?

(mx.rpc::Fault)#0
errorID = 0
faultCode = "Server.Processing"
faultDetail = "Syntax error in UPDATE statement."
faultString = "Unable to invoke CFC - Error Executing Database Query."
message = "faultCode:Server.Processing faultString:'Unable to invoke CFC - Error Executing Database Query.' faultDetail:'Syntax error in UPDATE statement.'"
name = "Error"
rootCause = (null)

# Posted By Arthur Phillips | 9/5/07 12:51 PM

@ Arthur

I would be curious to know in the CF logs what the error is so it can be fixed. is it a typo? what exactly is wrong with the Update statement. (btw, I test almost exclusively with Access, so it *does* work, maybe it's a datatype conversion issue? don't know.)

And yes, I will be at Max. I am giving the Hands-On:Advanced Printing and Reporting. 90 minutes of me walking through reporting stuff with the lucky people who signed up to attend.

@ Jim

still working on it. It will be released very soon, though.

# Posted By Dean Harmon | 9/5/07 1:29 PM

It's live now on Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.... - which is ColdFusion's support page)

or the direct download link is here: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/coldfusion/8/ec...

# Posted By Dean Harmon | 9/6/07 9:15 PM

Dean,

A thousand thank you's for this entry! I was going a little crazy trying to figure out why the extensions I installed didn't work with eclipse 3.3. Even though the downloads are now live on Adobe.com, the explanation in this entry was a real sanity-saver. Thanks for posting it!

# Posted By Janet | 9/20/07 7:26 PM

Dean,
I can't get Eclipse to recognize CF8 syntax. I'm running Linux and Eclipse 3.2. I added the CF8 extensions from Macromedia using the ZIP as a source, all went well but It's not recognizing CF8 syntax. I also followed the CF8 Dictionary instructions here,
and found the cf8.xml file was already there so I assume the above install worked. In my CFEclipse Project/Properties I still only see language up to 7.01.

Any thoughts on what to check?

Thanks

# Posted By Paul | 10/24/07 12:23 PM

@Paul: Which version of CFEclipse are you using?

# Posted By Mark Drew | 10/24/07 1:05 PM

THanks for the reply. Sorry, 3.2 on Linux...

However, I already uninstalled and reinstalled Eclipse, then reinstalled CFEclipse and I got CF8 syntax. My problem may have been the myEclipse Pro Plugin. I'll reinstall it and see if it breaks again.

Can anyone tell me what features are in the Macromedia CF8 Eclipse plugin? Is it for Linux?

# Posted By Paul | 10/24/07 9:25 PM

RDS support, some wizards and the new debugger

# Posted By Jim Priest | 10/24/07 9:48 PM

Thanks,

BTW: I loaded up the latest myEclipse plugin for Eclipse 3.2 and all is still well. I may load up the Macromedia plugin and see if all 3 can get along without breaking anything and report back here.

Thanks Again.

# Posted By Paul | 10/26/07 4:52 PM

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