CF IDE Announced

So I go to a meeting and of course all the cool stuff is announced…

CF IDE! Bolt!

The good:

• Object Relational Mapping auto-configuration
• Application Code Generation
• Server management

These other features are already in CFEclipse or available via a plugin:

• Easily extensible through the Eclipse framework
• CFML, HTML, Javascript, and CSS Syntax Highlighting
• Code assist for tags, functions, variables, and components
• Code folding
• Snippet creation and management
• Outline viewing
• RDS Explorer for files and databases
• Line-level Debugging

The bad:

• Not released until next year (coincide with the CF9 release?)
• No price info
• No info on platforms supported. I really hope they can bake in 100% Linux support!!

They have a beta signup here: http://www.adobe.com/go/bolt which unfortunately only allows you to select one OS for your development platform?  Hello? I develop on PC at work and Linux at home…

Adobe Labs page here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Bolt

So we’ll have to wait and see …  (and I hope the photo above in no way influences my beta application…)