Adobe Systems has announced the beta release of Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2, a new version of the popular development environment for building ColdFusion apps.
Using ColdFusion Builder 2 beta, users can develop, test, and deploy
applications in less time, customize their work environment to improve
workflow, and expand functionality with extensions built with
ColdFusion markup Language (CFML). When combined with Adobe ColdFusion 9 and the Adobe Flash Platform, developers can utilize a comprehensive set of tools, services and runtimes, for creating rich Internet applications.
ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse-based integrated development
environment (IDE) for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications. The
new beta release provides professional coding tools, server management,
testing tools, and new deployment capabilities, enabling developers to
quickly and easily move from development to production with less code
and fewer errors, Adobe said in a press release on the new version of
the product. It also allows developers to create a start page for their
applications and customize keyboard shortcuts, color coding, code
formatting and code snippets, speeding up the development process.
Developers can use CFML to increase the functionality of ColdFusion
Builder 2 beta, creating extensions to generate applications, insert
blocks of code, and expand code assist with customized code proposals.
“The ColdFusion Builder 2 beta enables users to take control of
their development environment, said Anup Murarka, director of product
marketing at Adobe, in a statement. With this release we’ve introduced
new functionality that significantly speeds the development of
applications and accelerates projects, saving time and money.”
Meanwhile, Brian Klaas, senior Web systems developer at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology,
said, “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.”
ColdFusion Builder 2 includes such features as
smart tab assist, which enables developers to quickly navigate to the
next logical tag, function, or control statement within your code using
keyboard shortcuts. Another key feature is the quick fix capability,
which helps speed up development by accessing methods within a
ColdFusion Component (CFC) that have not yet been created, and request
that ColdFusion Builder automatically generate the method outline. The
new release also includes integrated task management to enable
developer to set “to do” and “fix me” points within the code to quickly
identify sections and resume development where developers left off.
Dave Brioux, CEO of ForInsite,
said, “Overall, the wealth of new features in Adobe ColdFusion Builder
2, including the professional coding and testing tools, significantly
advance coding practices – helping me code at least 35 percent faster
and accelerate product development to save time and money.”
Other key new features in the ColdFusion 2 beta for developers to
test include customizable keyboard shortcuts for creating customized
keyboard shortcuts, modify existing shortcuts, and import/export
keyboard bindings to access frequent actions in the IDE. Intelligent
Code Assist accelerates application development with intelligent,
ordered code assist for CFML, CFScript, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. And
refactoring support speeds up CFML application development by
automatically restructuring code when renaming a CFC, function, or
variable, Adobe said.
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