Cool stuff cfeclipse/eclipse has the DW/Homesite Doesnt
1. UTF-8 . Homesite has a dodgy issue with utf-8 and can break xml files and multi-lingual pages because of its automatic insertion of the BOM marker. Admittedly DW does support UTF8
2. Tasks/bookmarks. Theres a neat little feature in CFEclipse with <!--- todo: ---> notes you can put into your CFM/CFC files that gives you a runnign task list of things that require completion. very handy for team development or just rmemebering what you were doing at days/weeks end when you come back to your code.
3. methods view. For the life of me i cant work out why DW doesnt have a methods view that doesnt require RDS
4. Eclipse Web Tools Project WTP. This set of plugins give you XML,CSS & Javscript edting fuctionality. Used in combination with the 'outline' view of eclipse and they let you easily navigate though long files right the the section you are after.
5. another feature of WTP is a DB Exprlorer that you can use similar to sql query analyser. i use it to keep a record of all the db updates and manual sql hacks i do so then i dont forget about them when i put the site into production.
6. Regular _expression_ Find / Replace - once you get a handle on regex's they are very handy.
7. Adobe RDS plugin and wizards. Although DW and HS both have the rds support the eclipse plugin also as wizards so you can create your own CFC's on the fly.
8. File Compare. Side by side comparision of two versions of the same file is very handy when you want to compare DEV v Production versions of files (because some naughty developer changed something in one version an not another!)
9. Local History. Eclipse stores cvs-style the changes to your files in its local history. very handy if you want to restore back to an old version of a file.
10. ANT support. Ant scripts are cool xml files you can write to produce builds of your codebase and even FTP them up to your sever.
Those would be my top 10 features of eclipse. + the billions of plugins you can get make it far superior to DW and HS.
Pat
On 6/10/06, Chad Renando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Used both CFEclipse and DW for single-developer environment, several
years on DW, about 12 months on Eclipse. From discussions in the
past, it seems to be personal preference. DW has a bad stigma from
being a resource hog, but now that I have a faster 'puter, I'm back to
DW. I don;t use design view and frequently bounce back and forth
between coding and ftp in the same app, which is good.
Chad
On 6/9/06, Chris Velevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I use eclipse because of it's intergration with version control. I use
> cvs and vss and plan to use subversion or Darcs. Plus it has local
> history as well.
>
>
> Chris
> --
> Chris Velevitch
> Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
> www.flashdev.org.au
>
> >
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