What do you mean un-backed? CFEclipse has the backing from Adobe. It isnt going anywhere.
you could say the same about Flex since the sdk is being open sourced. *holds tongue as I might just start insulting people from now on* On 5/7/07, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277122 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
