CFEclipse 1.3 Beta Integrated with FlexBuilder

Dean Harmon, the Adobe engineer responsible for the CF ReportBuilder and FlexBuilder2 ColdFusion Application/Extension Wizards, has tweaked CFEclipse 1.3 to make it compatible with Eclipse 3.1.

This is a short-term godsend as far as I am concerned. Many of us updated our Eclipse builds to 3.2 to take advantage of some of the feature enhancements of CFEclipse 1.3, which would only run under 3.2. Because FlexBuilder2 was built using the Eclipse 3.1 platform, you were left with two options; either install and use the supported standalone version without CFEclipse 1.3, or install the FB2 plugin into the Eclipse 3.2 build and use it in an unsupported manner. Since FlexBuilder2 was just released a couple months ago, I opted for the former. This resulted in having to work in two different environments.

Dean's integration work now means you can access CFEclipse functionality while using the standalone FlexBuilder. This is a big deal if you are a ColdFusion developer trying to work with CFCs and remoting.

The updated CFEclipse build can be found here.