CFEclipse 1.3 Beta and FlexBuilder

I know this is not reporting related, but I think it's pretty darn important.

At CFUnited this year, the CFEclipse team announced their beta version 1.3. It included a lot of cool new things, bug fixes, and the like. But there was a problem: it didn't work on Eclipse 3.1 (the core of FlexBuilder). And the flex builder stuff didn't work on 3.2. So you were stuck working in two different environments *again*.

Have no fear, my friends, the answer to your troubles has arrived. It was annoying me quite a bit, so I decided to do something about it (with Mark Drew's and the CFEclipse guys permission of course). Anyways, to make a long story short, CFEclipse 1.3 is now compatible with Eclipse 3.1. I sent the version to Mark and he updated the CFEclipse beta download page with the new version.

Geesh, there's like numbers, numbers flying everywhere.

So, if you're using FlexBuilder, and you know you should, and you want to use the updated CFEclipse functionality that Mark has worked so hard on, go here and download the updated version. The instructions at the bottom say that it doesn't work in 3.1, but this is no longer true.

So, for those of you who have not used CFEclipse yet, you probably should :-). Version incompatiblity is no longer an excuse!

ColdFusion & Flex Builder

I recorded these three demos a while ago explaining how to do different things with the Extensions we released for ColdFusion and FlexBuilder. I thought that the extensions themselves were supposed to be up on the main ColdFusion download page, but I didn't find them.

You can get a a 30 day trial of Flex Builder 2 here
And you can get the extensions from here

The extensions will work as simple Eclipse plugins, the only thing that is Flex Builder specific is the Application Generation Wizard. It will not show up unless you have Flex Builder installed. RDS, the other wizards, and the Service Browser will work just fine, though.

oh, and here's the breezo's on how it all works (I promised people at CFUnited that I would post these)

Part 1:ColdFusion Extensions for FlexBuilder – App Gen Wizard Intro (14:01)
Part 2:ColdFusion Extensions for FlexBuilder – App Gen Wizard Advanced Features (08:50)
Part 3:ColdFusion Extensions for FlexBuilder - Other Features, Wizards and Utilities (11:23)

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