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June 10, 2010
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CFBuilder versus CFEclipse

  • June 10, 2010
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OK Somebody sell me here.  I have been trying to figure out if I should by CFBuilder when CFEclipse is free.

Thanks,

David

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ilssac
Inspiring
June 10, 2010

IF CFEclipse meets your needs, then it is probably the correct tool for you.

There are differences between CFEclipse and CFBuilder for which some developers are willing to pay.

Whether there are enough developers willing to pay for it is a question open to heated debate.

June 10, 2010

I would wait if I were you... CFB is in its infancy and I encounter just as many problems (though different) in CFB than I did in cf_eclipse. I haven't checked in a while, but if cf_eclipse were to fix some bugs, it could be a great cf editor. However, it doesn't support line level debugging, which is a huge benefit of CFB. If that's important, it might be worth the $300.

The CFB editor sucks right now, and it has since I started using it (last winter). It's slow and painful to edit some files. They've made some fixes in the first update that were much needed, but now they need to deal with performance. Some files cripple the CFB editor and it takes several seconds after every edit for the editor to catch up. There's also a ton of features that I don't use, which have to do with automatic code generation and so forth.

If you are to switch, it takes a little time. You have to re-import all your projects and then configure RDS. It's not entirely straight forward and it might take a little time for you to figure it out.

DjonesAXAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 14, 2010

I didnt realize that Eclipse didnt support CF line level debugging.  I am taking over an existing project with over 4,000 CF files so I will most likely be relying on the debugging heavily to help me understand the code faster. 

David