CFE is definitely targeted at code-centric developers, while DW is essentially an HTML design tool that has had a lot code-centric stuff bolted on. Neither approach is better or worse, just suited to different people. The most important difference, however, has nothing to do with that.
CFE is built upon Eclipse, which brings with it more tools that you could hope to learn about this year. You install Eclipse, and then you can start building the dev environment that you need, not the one that company X thought you needed. For example, DW doesn't integrate with version control, but Eclipse plugins exist for CVS, SVN, Perforce, VSS, and probably others. Want XML editing? There are choices there too: XmlBuddy, oXygen, MyEclipse's XML stuff, and others. That's the best reason I see to use CFE over DW. In all honesty, I still think CFE is lacking compared to DW in some areas (like snippet usability), but the external tools support make it WAY better overall. I might lose 10-15 minutes a day because of stuff DW would make easier, but I'll save an hour or more with all the other integrated tools I can use in it. cheers, barneyb On 1/27/06, PINE Phyo Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What IDE do you normally use for CF? I heard a lot of raves about > CFEclipse so I downloaded it and use at home. I normally use Dreamweaver > at work. Apart from CFEclipse being free, I do not find any considerable > edge or advantage over Dreamweaver. (Any CFEclipse developers, no > offence please.) Any thoughts on this? > > May be I am not using it right but CFEclipse lacks mainly, IMHO, in > graphical representation. In Dreamweaver, I can go back and fort on > Design view and Code view and most of the HTML component creation is a > snap. (May be CFEclipse is more geared for pure ColdFusion.) But in > CFEclipse I need to type everything in. Well, may be I am not geek > enough but just typing everything in for complex UI seem like really a > chore to me. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Phyo Pine -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230644 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
