ColdFusion Builder, what feature should the next version have

Tags: ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion Builder, CFORM

The number one feature on my list, and I am sure that so many others would have to agree. In my last blog post I outlined how much time was wasted in trying to get something that might seem very basic to some, but it has highlighted the need for it anyway.

I tweeted this the other day, but what would be a must have in the next version, is the ability to design your HQL. If you have used MS SQL Server tools, then you know the manager has the ability to add tables to the design view and see the relationships, or create the relationships.

HQL is hard enough for us to learn at the best of times, but when something goes wrong when we can't see the obvious one has to ask, how can we improve this experience.

Now there are plenty of tools out there for Java to do this, and none will work with CFBuilder because the number one requirement is the hibernate configuration xml file, which ColdFusion has never exposed to the user. Or at least there is no way to get at it to use in these tools.

So ColdFusion Builder will either require this xml file to be exposed to be used in these tools, which I am not sure will not work as they might not know about the CFC persistent entities might not work. So the only other solution would be for a design view, where we can see the table add relationships by dragging from one table to another, in the same manner as we can build normal SQL queries with right now.

But the difference is that the HQL can be generated based on the information that is done in this design view, and of course we can execute this and see the results from the query.

All I ask that if you think this is a feature that would make CFB a better more productive tool, then lets get Adobe to get this into the next version.


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  • RyanTJ's Gravatar If CFB could be to CF developers what VS is for DotNet that would be awesome.
    # Posted By RyanTJ | 8/9/11 8:09 AM
  • Andrew Scott's Gravatar Yes over time I would imagine that this will happen, and it will be the tool that most would have to say they can't live without.

    One day....
    # Posted By Andrew Scott | 8/9/11 8:17 AM

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