About CFEclipse
Originally released in January 2004 by Rob Rohan, the initial release was very basic. The project name was originally called the Basic ColdFusion Eclipse Plug-in.
Since then CFEclipse has undergone many improvements and feature additions by developers such as Oliver Tupman, Stephen 'Spike' Milligan, Mark Drew, and many others. At least 20 people have contributed code to the CFEclipse project, and the number of people that have helped market, design, support, or and steer the product are far too numerous to list here.
CFEclipse is truly a community effort.
In June 2005, Macromedia announced that they would become an active supporter and contributor to the CFEclipse project. And currently Adobe is actively involved in contributing code and offering understanding of the ColdFusion developer base to help take CFEclipse to the next level in its support for ColdFusion MX 8 and beyond.
What is CFEclipse?
CFEclipse is a plug-in that gives developers the ability to author and edit ColdFusion files from within the Eclipse environment. CFEclipse provides Eclipse with an outline view, a CFC (ColdFusion component) view, code completion (code hinting), syntax highlighting text editors for CFML and CFC files, and many more ColdFusion-specific features.
One thing CFEclipse does not have is WYSIWYG ability. Its complete focus is on writing ColdFusion code (so-called hand coding) and building tools that help you write code. If you do a lot of visual or page-layout development for instance, if you rely heavily on drag-and-drop tools, wizards, or the Design view in Dreamweaver - CFEclipse may not be the tool for you.
Support CFEclipse
How To Contribute
You don't have to be a Java developer to help with the CFEclipse project. There are many other things that non-Java coders can do: documentation, answer mailing list support questions, and help maintain content on the CFEclipse wiki.
If you know Java and would like to help, submitting patches is the best way to get committer status. If you have an idea and want to add a feature, let us know so that committers won't step on each others' toes. We also have instructions to check out and build CFEclipse from source on our wiki.
If you'd like to help, Java coder or not, join the mailing list and say you'd like to help. It might take us a bit to get back to you but we would love to hear from you.
Donate
You can also support the CFEclipse project by giving donations through PayPal. The funds from the PayPal donations will be used towards spreading the word about CFEclipse at conferences as well as providing for hardware and software for the team members.
Please remember that project members currently volunteer their spare time to work on this project, provide support and manage the project.
For clarification, the donations go towards Mark Drew initially, if you have any other ideas on how you think you would like to support CFEclipse, please contact Mark Drew.
CFEclipse Gear
CFEclipse clothing and other goodies are available and your purchases help support the CFEclipse project.