ColdFusion Builder now available for purchase, includes Flash Builder 4

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Last night at midnight Adobe released ColdFusion Builder, a brand new IDE built upon Eclipse for ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS development.

The price is $299 and includes a full license for Flash Builder 4 Standard.

This is a fantastic deal and if you’re not using ColdFusion Builder already, then you should definitely give it a go.

Here’s some of the features:
Code insight and code assist
Customizable development environment
Integrated debugger
CFML template preview
ColdFusion 7, 8, and 9 version support
Application deployment
Remote project support
Object relational mapping
Extensibility with CFML
Integrated development with the Adobe Flash Platform

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Worth adding that for those in Education you can download it, ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 for free here - https://freeriatools.adobe.com/

Cheers,
James

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I tried the beta v3 earlier this month. It looked like dreamweaver light.

Dreamweaver CS4 has CF9 features and is far more robust for only $100 more. The Flash Builder 4 license is the only real carrot.

The beta was also terribly buggy.

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You could say that Dreamweaver is too heavy and if cost is an issue then go for CFEclipse. It’s free :wink:

Personally I just don’t have any need for all the DW front-end tools and Server-side language support that I don’t use. Also compared with the range of free plugins available for Eclipse it just doesn’t compete.

I’ll agree though that the betas of CFB were buggy. I had a lot of problems with Subversive freezing. There was a big push at the end to fix a lot of the issues though. I read somewhere around 3000 bugs were fixed after the beta 3 release.

It’s beta software though so you can’t really complain. If there is a problem you should raise a ticket :wink:

Flash Builder is free but as Creole says it’s only the standard version. The Premium Edition is going to put you back $699.00. That price puts a large shadow over CFB AND FB Standard for $299 :wink:

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Downloaded the 60 day trial and it seems far more stable and functional than the beta.

Will give the CFEclipse a try too.

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Textmate has some good bundles for CF. Just to chime in ANOTHER alternative.