Does CFEclipse have a future with Adobe?

Posted At : July 18, 2008 10:03 AM | Posted By : Terry Schmitt
Related Categories: ColdFusion,JavaScript

Alright Adobe... Time to step up to the plate. Mozilla is putting their full support behind Firebug and creating a new team. Shouldn't Adobe do the same with CFEclipse? It's obvious that Homesite+ and Studio are gasping for air and Dreamweaver sure doesn't fill the gap. Come on Adobe. Help Mark Drew out!

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I have a feeling, from Ben Forta's Keynote at WebManiacs and what was reiterated at CFUnited, that Adobe is putting together an IDE for the CF9 release train. One of Adobe's "points" in the CF9/Cantaur presentation was about "improving the developer experience". Of course, I love CFEclipse and would be psyched if Adobe picked it up and actually helped Mark out :)!
# Posted By Craig Kaminsky | 7/18/08 10:37 AM
I really hope Adobe doesn't go out and build a new/separate IDE. I use Eclipse and all it's plugins for a reason. Adobe should step up to the plate and improve on what exists. Their weight could really take CFEclipse to a place that I know Mark won't be able to take it too alone.

I could also see them (too easily unfortunately) making their own Eclipse plugin to go along with Flex builder and just trying to step on CFEclipse...
# Posted By Russell Brown | 7/18/08 10:45 AM
Adobe will build their own CF free-standing IDE, and include along side it a "plugin" for Eclipse much like Aptana has done.

What's interesting is how Aptana started off promoting their free-standing IDE, and then when things weren't equal with the Eclipse environment, they starting reverting you back to uninstalling the desktop, installing Eclipse, and then adding their plugin on top of Eclipse.

I know this because I tried to get them to get the RDS feature of the CF Extensions plugin fixed inside the free-standing, and they basically said "use Eclipse instead - that's what we recommend".

Also, how successful has the FLEX IDE been on the desktop? Adobe got lots of cudos up front, but I wonder how many developers went back to Eclipse and just added in the Flex plugin.

And as an afterthought, what if Adobe comes up with a universal IDE (much like Eclipse) and just throws plugins on top of it over the upcoming years. Plus open sources the building of plugins so the whole world can add to it?

All I know is CF needs a CF specific IDE -- I loved Homesite+!

...man, I have too much time on my hands. ;(
# Posted By Robert Myers | 7/18/08 1:17 PM
Ben & Adam gave the keynote at CFUnited and said that they will have some announcements at MAX regarding the developer experience. I imagine this is what it will be about so stay patient :)
# Posted By Dan Vega | 7/18/08 1:34 PM
Adobe seems to be listening fairly well to the community these days, so I'm fairly optimistic that they will do something positive.
I was real glad to hear the news about Firebug... I don't know how I worked with AJAX and JavaScript before it came along!
# Posted By Terry Schmitt | 7/18/08 3:04 PM

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