ColdFusion Builder
From Adobe Labs
ColdFusion Builder (Bolt) Beta 2 Release Notes
Overview
Welcome to the Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ Beta 2 release (previously codenamed "Bolt").
ColdFusion Builder is Adobe’s integrated development environment (IDE) for developing applications using ColdFusion. ColdFusion Builder is built on top of Eclipse, and can run as a standalone installation or as a plug-in to an Eclipse™ or Adobe® Flash® Builder™ installation.
The goal of the ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 release is to give the community an opportunity to test and provide feedback on the new and enhanced features of ColdFusion Builder. So, please use this opportunity to explore and evaluate the features, and communicate your feedback. However, since it is Beta software, please do remember that there may be bugs, performance issues, incomplete features, and documentation issues.
Note: Although we do believe this release to be extremely stable, because this is a Beta release, we strongly recommend that you install the software on development and testing servers only.
New and Changed Features in ColdFusion Builder Beta 2
This release of ColdFusion Builder includes new and changed features and enhancements in the following areas:
Server Management
- Support for non-JRun servers: ColdFusion Builder now lets you configure ColdFusion servers that run on non-JRun servers.
- Virtual hosts and virtual directories: You can now access projects and resources outside your webroot by using virtual hosts and virtual directories. Virtual hosts let you manage multiple websites from a single web server. ColdFusion Builder functionality like, previewing, debugging, Code Assist, and extension building, is extended to all the websites configured to the virtual host.
- Using URL prefix: You can debug and preview projects outside your document root or webroot by using a URL prefix.
For detailed information about all server-related enhancements, see Managing Servers.
Code Editing in ColdFusion Builder
- Performance-related improvements: With the Beta 2 release of ColdFusion Builder, there are significant performance-related improvements, especially when editing large-sized files.
- SQL Editor: The CFML editor has an integrated SQL editor that lets you edit and write SQL statements. The SQL Editor supports Code Assist and code colorization for some SQL statements. For SQL statements within the cfquery tag, Code Assist and code colorization is also available in the CFML Editor. For more information, see SQL Editor.
- CFML dictionaries: ColdFusion Builder provides built-in CFML dictionaries that assist you with CFML code completion; you can also create your own custom CFML dictionary. For more information, see CFML Dictionaries.
ColdFusion Builder Extension Framework
- You can add menus to the CFML editor.
- You can specify callback commands in your extensions to refresh projects, files, and folders in ColdFusion Builder. You can also specify commands that open files, close dialog boxes, and wrap and replace text.
For more information on these enhancements, see Developing ColdFusion Builder Extensions.
ColdFusion Builder Help System
- The CFML Reference is integrated with the CFML editor, letting you quickly review the reference Help for a CFML tag or function. For more information, see Display CFML Reference Help.
For information on getting started with all these features, and more, see Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for ColdFusion Builder are as follows:
Windows
- Windows XP Pro SP2, SP3
- Windows Vista - 32 bit
Macintosh
- 10.5.6 (Leopard) Intel only, PPC not supported
Eclipse
- Eclipse 3.4.2
- Eclipse 3.5 Milestone builds not supported
Java
- Windows - Sun 1.5 and 1.6. (32 bit), IBM 1.5 and 1.6 (32 bit)
- OS X - Sun 1.5 (32 bit)
Memory
- 1GB required, 2GB recommended
Installation Instructions
For instructions to install ColdFusion Builder on Windows and Macintosh platforms - as a standalone installation or as plug-in configuration, see Installing Adobe ColdFusion Builder.
Documentation
The following Beta-quality documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Known Issues
The following issues are known to exist in ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 and have not been fixed in this release.
74288 - If you create a workspace in a folder to which you do not have access permissions, an error appears that says, ‘Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one’.
74639 - The Tag wizard does not maintain the formatting of tags. If the attributes of a tag are written in multiple lines, and if you edit the tag in the Tag wizard, the tag wizard removes the formatting and places the entire tag in single line.
74651 - Firefox Preview option in IDE does not appear on MAC OS X.
74720 - If CF Project / CFM / CFC wizards are launched by pressing Ctrl+N. The wizard control may not work properly.
75238 - In ColdFusion Builder Extensions, when html UI is displayed to the user (showresponse=yes), Ajax controls and JavaScript are not supported. For Ajax and JavaScript to work, use the url attribute in the response XML. Applets controls are not supported in any of the above case.
76125 - The CFCs that appear below the project are resolved with the component name. Hence, for components within the project folder, ColdFusion Builder generates the fully qualified name that is the component name itself. For example, a project p1 that has a component cfc01 is resolved as 'cfc01' if it is accessed from a component cfc02, which is inside a subfolder f1 of the project.
76152 - ColdFusion Builder does not override the 'Rename' option of Eclipse in the Project Navigator Menu. To refactor the changes, use the [Refactor-> Rename] option. Using the Eclipse Rename option only renames the file and does not update the references.
76283 - Refactoring happens relative to the Keyboard cursor position and not the Mouse Arrow cursor. So, if you are using a mouse cursor, ensure that your first left-click and then right-click to see the right item in the Rename field.
76606 - Color Preference page does not get refreshed to reflect the current color scheme set through profiles. To see the currently set colors scheme through profiles, you must reopen the Preference dialog box.
76745 - In some cases, where the parser cannot recover from a syntax error, it may not be able to associate the end tag with the corresponding start tag.
77040 - In case of simultaneous debug of two files, the focus of the debug target is not on the newly requested file for debug. The focus will be on the last file being debugged. You need to explicitly select the debug target of the file to debug.
77055 - If you download Aptana Studio from web and install ColdFusion Builder on it, it may not work correctly.
77533 - IDE responds slowly when a new server is added and its settings are being collected.
78032 - If the RDS server is edited from RDS configurations (Windows->Preferences). The changes are not reflected on the ColdFusion Server added in the Server Manager.
78131 - Snippet text does not support CDATA, because the snippet is stored as XML and the snippet text is inside a CDATA.
78271 - When a remote server is added to ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 servers, the start/stop operation might not work.
78354 - For nested function calls, the closing bracket for inner function does not get auto-completed.
78384 - While adding new server in server manager by importing the RDS configuration, extensions are not installed.
78386 - On changing the server associated with a project, you need to close any un-terminated Debug targets before debugging a file in that project.
78488 - When a server with ‘Windows service option’ enabled is added as a remote server, the Start-Stop-Restart operation cannot be done on it.
79910 - Installer shows error at the end of Install in Mac. But, ColdFusion Builder will work as expected.
80136 - In Vista/Windows 7, if the user does not have Administrator privileges, ColdFusion Builder must be launched with "Run As Administrator" option to start/stop the server added in ColdFusion Builder.
80146 - In Eclipse plug-in mode installation in Mac, the ColdFusion Builder uninstaller application does not remove the plug-ins completely. Hence, to uninstall ColdFusion Builder Eclipse plug-ins in Mac, run the uninstall_cfbuilder.sh command from console.
80151 - On a machine that has both Standalone and Plug-in installations of ColdFusion Builder, to uninstall the specific ColdFusion Builder installation, you must explicitly go to the install location. Uninstalling from Start->Program files->Adobe->Adobe ColdFusion Builder is not recommended.
80152 - Directory selection dialog of the installer might take a long time to appear in some machines.
80154 - SQL Code Assist implementation does not always verify validity of code assist proposals before displaying them. If you do not want SQL code assist to be displayed automatically, go to Preferences->ColdFusion->Editor Profiles->Editor->Code Assist and turn off ‘Automatically Display SQL Code Assist When Typing’ option. This will display SQL code assist within CFQuery tag only when invoked manually. That is, by pressing Ctrl+<SPACE>.
80169 - In Mac, for a server on which debugging is enabled, the restart operation causes an error that says, ‘Address already in use’.
80170 - For extensions, License html file is not loaded if the description html file is not specified for the extension.
80174 - Some ExtJS controls are not displayed in the built-in browser control of Eclipse on Mac. Because of this, ORM CFC Generator many not work as expected on Mac. To work around this issue, go to Preferences->ColdFusion->Extensions and select the ‘Use Mozilla Browser For Extensions’ option. You need to have Firefox installed on your machine for this option to work.
80179 - If Flash builder is installed as plug-in to ColdFusion Builder, remove / backup com.adobe.coldfusion.rds.client_* plugin and start ColdFusion Builder.
80184 - If security.properies is not updated in the remote server, stopping the server in ColdFusion Builder shows the status as stopped. However, the remote server is not stopped.
80211 - Installing ColdFusion Builder as a plug-in on Flash Builder may uninstall the Flash Debug Player causing Flex debugging to not work. To workaround this issue, download and re-install the Flash Debug player from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html or FBinstallDirectory/Players.
