Eclipse with CFEclipse provides a way to truly customize your IDE experience. Dreamweaver offered extensions that were useful and feature rich, but there was an underlying lacking that people had wanted. The sentiment that I get from everyone that I have asked about why they enjoy Eclipse came from the ability to go to one place to edit most everything they needed. Since Eclipse is flexible, you can combine plugins not originally meant for ColdFusion development into ways to make your ColdFusion life easier.
You can grab a function from one perspective and use it as an option for yet another. I myself use commands aka features from PHP Eclipse, Java Perspective, CFEclipse, Flex Builder ...etc . You get the point. You can find the strengths of all the plugins that you like and then combine them together in a way that suits your programming style. There are limitations that people do not enjoy. The lack of ability to open a file from the file system while your primary workspace is open deters some. The naming conventions of all the features are not lingua franca. There is a lot of manual configuration sometimes to get exactly what you want. I would agree that Dreamweaver is a good starting place. Dreamweaver offers excellent support for mark up, slicing and css designing. Since Eclipse is a Java application, you can have as many versions of the tool to test and find your ideal solution. I have Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2 on my personal system. 3.1 for Flex and CFEclipse 1.2.0 and 3.2 for vanilla CF with CFEclipse 1.2.9. Teddy On 10/11/06, Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use eclipse - it's easy, modifiable and FREE! I made a post a little > while back about the tools i use and got some good comments about eclipse > if > you're interested: > > http://www.succor.co.uk/index.cfm/2006/6/7/A-CF-developers-toolset#comments > > On 11/10/06, Ryan Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quick question, > > > > I've been using dreamweaver for coldfusion development at work for > > sometime. I've always been of the opinion that it's much more of a > > designer/prototype/entry level tool. I'm looking into alternatives to > put > > forward as suggestions for a DW replacement as others are now realising > > issues with it. > > > > Q. What IDE/editor do you use for coldfusion development? (and if you > feel > > you want to expand with why and perhaps complexity of use, then that's > very > > kind) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ryan. > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended > > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed > > and should not be disclosed to any other party. > > If you have received this email in error please notify your system > manager > > and the sender of this message. > > > > This email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses > but > > no guarantee is given that this e-mail message and any attachments are > free > > from viruses. > > > > Fife Council > > Tel: 08451 55 00 00 > > ************************************************ > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256250 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
