With Bolt coming – I’m wondering if Adobe will continue to support the Eclipse extension (RDS, debugger, etc). I don’t recall it being updated for Ganymede and looking in the download the last timestamps are from 1/2008 (it would be nice if they gave this a version #).
Right now there appears to be a bug with it and Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4) and I have no idea how to contact Adobe about it… The issue is documented on this post and I’ve taken the screenshot below to illustrate:
Adobe Eclipse Extension Bug
Right now I can make an RDS connection but when I expand my directory (A) I get an error (B) if I click on the directory to expand it. What is odd is I can then click on the navigation arrows (C) and navigate through my directories and while it works it is tedious.
Anyone from Adobe read my blog and care to comment? :)
Update - same issue appears with the RDS Dataview:
Dataview Issue
Same issue – You can connect (A) but never get a list just “Contact server…”. However you can open the Query Viewer and see a list of available data sources (B) and even query against them (C).
Possibly Related:
The Dear Adobe, The Eclipse Extension Is Broken… by Jim, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Although is appears to be locked up at Contacting server…it is indeed working. Once you see the Contacting server in the view go up to the toolbar and click on the refresh icon. You will have to continue to do this while navigating the tree. A bug, definitely, but a work around there is.
On linux when you get that “contacting server” error, you just right-click and refresh and it’ll pull up a list. Figured it was a linux-only issue.
fwiw, in all the public previews that I have seen presented, these features have been rolled into Bolt.
The plans are indeed to roll the ColdFusion Eclipse plug-ins into Bolt, and update them as appropriate.
— Ben
Ben! Thanks for the comment!
So will there still be a standalone version available for CFEclipse? :)
[...] Usually when people post off-topic items on the CFEclipse mailing list I try to help out as much as possible. But in this case I really can’t do squat and it’s frustrating. I’ve blogged about the ColdFusion extension issue before: Dear Adobe, The Eclipse Extension Is Broken… [...]