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Got the CFEclipse RDS Plugin Working!

Posted on Mar 21, 2006

Initially I had some trouble locating the download (and the instructions on the wiki didn't actually install the plugin (and I already had the most recent CFEclipse version). Finally Ray Camden directed me to actually click to download the Flex 2 Builder 2 and then look for the "Download ColdFusion Extensions to Flex Builder 2.0 (ZIP, 1.8 MB)" link. (not the most obvious place to me, so thanks Ray). After downloading the zip, and placing the four plugin folders in my plugins directory, I loaded up Eclipse and there in my preferences was the RDS configuration. The setup here is fairly straightforward, and I was able to get an RDS connection to our development server at Hasbro working in no time. I opened the RDS dataview view and saw my database tables. Right click on a table and you can run the query viewer to test queries against your database, or run the ColdFusion wizards to auto-generate CFC's based upon your database table (your bean and your DAO, with several different options). These features are extremely useful even if you are not using Flex. The RDS fileview is pretty straghtforward, so no need to expand on that. Basically, this is really, really sweet, and IMHO was the missing link in CFEclipse (now if I could only find a decent CSS plugin...anyone?)

Comments

Thanks, that worked for me, too

Posted By Michael White / Posted on 03/21/2006 at 9:17 AM

I haven't found a great CSS solution either. What are you using for XML? Or FTP?

I use XML Buddy, but am not in love with it. I haven't really looked for FTP yet, as I just use WS_FTP externally.

Posted By Matt Williams / Posted on 03/21/2006 at 10:38 AM

I use the Altova XMLSpy 2005 plugin for Eclipse. XMLSpy has a free home edition.

http://www.altova.com/features_eclipse.html

Posted By Steven Erat / Posted on 03/21/2006 at 12:42 PM

hi all.

for xhtml, css, js, and xml, i use the webtools plugin from eclipse.org. to install directly from eclipse:
1. click help / software updates / find and install.
2. search for new features to install.
3. make a new remote site with name: webtools, url: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/
4. i suggest checking the 'filter out features from other lists' box to reduce your download size

for ftp, i use the firefox extension fireftp, and i've never had any problems with it.

btw, the eclipe plugin also provides dtd and web service support [though i haven't yet used it for either of those]. hope this info helps someone.

Posted By Tyler McManus / Posted on 05/16/2006 at 3:50 PM

For a good css/js/xhtml plugin, I use the Aptana plugin at www.aptana.com. It's a lot better than what is provided with the WTP. You can also alternate between the source view and design view with the Aptana plugin. But you can't visually edit anything with it.

Posted By Richard / Posted on 11/01/2006 at 8:00 AM