Adobe what are you thinking with ColdFusion Builder?

Tags: Coldfusion

This is probably too late to change for the very first release, but Adobe why are you installing ColdFusion Builder outside of Eclipse?

I used to love the fact that I could put Eclipse onto my portable drive and carry it with me, then I could just plug the hard drive in and run Eclipse.

ColdFusion Builder has stopped this, which means every machine you wish to use it on you have to install it on. Now Adobe you may have a very good reason for this, but I don't think any good reason would be good enough to stop me from using the program the way Eclipse has meant you to use it.

I hope that Adobe take this into consideration and provide a better upgrade path and install path, and allow for this use case to work. As it is now it does nothing but hinder the use when people are on the move all the time, especially if I go to a cafe. I am now forced to install it on my main workstation and my portable in 2 separate locations for what purpose?


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  • Mike Henke's Gravatar Can you explain how the installation process is different and why it stops you from doing what you currently do with the portable drive?
    # Posted By Mike Henke | 2/15/10 6:16 AM
  • Ben Nadel's Gravatar I wonder with the level of integration ColdFusion Builder brings to the tabel as far as hooking into your ColdFusion server and providing plugins to extend features using ColdFusion... is it even possible to make it portable?

    I think one thing we have to remember is that his thing is no longer a "Text Editor". It is / trying to become a full IDE. It's closer to Visual Studio than it is HomeSite.

    Does Visual Studio have a portable edition? (I ask in seriousness - I know nothing about VS).
    # Posted By Ben Nadel | 2/15/10 8:25 AM
  • Andrew Scott's Gravatar @Ben - Install Beta 1, 2 or 3 and then copy the installed directory especially if it is the plugin version, to some other area of your hard drive and then run eclipse.

    Now thats portable. Mind you, you will never be able to unistall it from that new location.
    # Posted By Andrew Scott | 2/15/10 9:02 AM
  • Brian Kotek's Gravatar I believe that most (if not all) commercial Eclipse plugins require a linked plugin setup to handle product activation and license management. See Flex Builder/Flash Builder, MyEclipse, etc.
    # Posted By Brian Kotek | 2/15/10 9:23 AM
  • Andrew Scott's Gravatar @Brian - That is not true, I have an Eclipse on my portable that has a comercial plugin installed into it. It works no matter were I run Eclipse from.
    # Posted By Andrew Scott | 2/15/10 10:39 AM
  • Gavin McLelland's Gravatar I see no reason for Adobe installing CF Builder outside of eclipse other than thats the way they like to do things.

    The ColdFusion server install does essentially the same thing. There is no reason for CF9 Dev Edition not to be portable either.
    # Posted By Gavin McLelland | 2/15/10 1:28 PM
  • Andrew Scott's Gravatar Gavin, I agree and the other side of the coin is that Adobe should have followed the Eclipse way to install/unistall/update and because they didn't they now have to maintain 2 separate versions of the application.

    Not to mention that linux users are now cut off, and why is that? Because Adobe shrunk their market by going away from the conventional way that Eclipse works. I must ask Adobe one thing, is there actually anyone in that company that can actually think about what or how people might come to use this product?
    # Posted By Andrew Scott | 2/15/10 3:41 PM

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