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Serious problems debugging on a remote server with ColdFusion Builder

Tags: Coldfusion

Due to problems with licensing on my machine with the final release of ColdFusion Builder, I installed it on another machine.

I setup the settings it asked for, and I am able to stop and restart the ColdFusion server which means the settings are correct.

so what is the problem?

The problem is the server wizard, or the server settings and the project settings. They do not work as expected.

I raised an issue over 12 months ago on this, the problem was that with the way the server requires information that the project already contains. I really expected this to be fixed before ColdFusion Builder was release.

The problem is that Adobe used the Aptana as their choice to do a lot of work they didn't have to do. This means that a lot of the outstanding bugs are on hold because Adobe was to busy fixing the colour syntax and the editor itself.

If that is not true then you can look at the IDE known as ColdFusion Builder an search all known problems in their bug tracker to find they are sill open. What that means is that they spent the last 6 months just getting the bugs ironed out in the editor alone.

The biggest bug raised with Adobe was the server settings, and the tab that is labelled URL mappings. Adobe chose to add a tab labelled URL mappings, because they were too lazy to work out how people would actually use the product.

And this is important how?

If you are not familiar with Eclipse then you may not know that when you create a project, whether it be remote or local, your are effectively telling the project how and where to find the source files. Adobe don't or didn't understand that when I was on the pre-release, and now that it has been released I can talk about this as a huge problem.

Even though I set the server up to tell it how to connect via RDS, it still requires you to setup the settings as a remote server or url mappings. Not to mention that when you try to edit these you can only add and not edit. How this as never fixed is beyond belief. Well not really, they had serious issues with the speed of the editor, colour syntax and other things.

The point is you are required to run through hoops to setup a remote connection, and if your lucky you might get your wish. Otherwise you need to blame Adobe for their lack of proper use case examples to see or how the product should be used.

I may be critical of the ColdFusion products, but know this, Adobe have once again released a product before it should have been released.

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