Adobe has made a significant investment in the Eclipse platform for their development tools, however, and FlexBuilder is both an official Adobe product and Eclipse-based. It seems pretty obvious that that's the way of the future for Adobe. I'd be shocked if Photoshop was ever an Eclipse-based product, but where you're not the giant already, but can stand on the shoulders of giants.......
Like it or not, Eclipse is a powerhouse in the tool arena (at least outside the sphere of Microsoft), and more and more offerings (commercial or otherwise) are leveraging that platform. If you're doing Java-related development (as ColdFusion is), the base tooling is even more powerful. For example, if you're willing to do the Java->CF reverse translation (which is reasonably straightforward), and willing to use infinite loops instead of breakpoint callouts, you can use the stock Eclipse JDT for debugging CF applications. Tacking on those two relatively trivial aspects of debugging to the existing Java debugging tooling in Eclipse sure seems like a no brainer compared to writing a debugger from scratch on the DW platform. Which isn't to say that I'm blind to the fact that they're alienating users of DW (their own product!) for those using Eclipse (probably with CFEclipse - an unbacked open source product - though FlexBuilder is Eclipse based and an official Adobe product), but without knowing what goes on behind closed doors, it seems like they've made a good decision. cheers, barneyb On 5/6/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I personally use Eclipse, that's sort of a raw deal for people who > don't like Eclipse, or prefer another development environment. It's not as > if Eclipse is an official Adobe product. > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277118 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
