Adobe launches ColdFusion Builder 2 public beta

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Thursday, Adobe announced the public availability of ColdFusion Builder 2 beta, the company's Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for its ColdFusion development platform.

ColdFusion Builder first became available

nearly two years ago when Adobe integrated Flash Builder 4 and AIR into ColdFusion 9. This version, codenamed "Storm" adds a host of enhancements to some of Builder's most useful features: syntax highlighting, Syntax Checking, Code Assist, code outline, code folding, project management, RDS and FTP support, debugger, server manager, and extensions.

This includes a lot of tools to help accelerate development; such as new keyboard shortcuts and intelligent code assist. ColdFusion Builder 2 can complete tags and automatically insert required tag attributes while you're writing code with Code Assist. This was present before, but it's been improved this time around.

Task Management has also been integrated into the development environment, letting users set "to do" and "fix me" notifications within the code so developers can jump directly to areas that need work.

Extensions have also seen a big improvement and now get more data from ColdFusion Builder 2, which Adobe consultant Raymond Camden shows off in a couple of demonstrations in Adobe's Developer Connection.

"The expanded capabilities of extensions in Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2 allow us to easily create custom extensions to the ColdFusion Builder workspace. The ability to create a new view in Eclipse with a single line of code in a ColdFusion Builder extension is a stroke of genius and opens up all sorts of possibilities for our development work," Brian Klaas, Senior Web Systems Developer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said today.

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