Dave, Let's look at some of the things you have listed.
- RDS is just not datasources, it is also file views and extensions and also about the Editor as well. Without the RDS you don't' get a lot of the intellisense help etc. - TailView is very handy because you can open up a number of views an watch the different errors, as well as color code the errors as well. - SVN Plugin does far more than what you think it does, and combined with mylyn it is an invaluable tool at your disposal. Now the one thing to note, which a lot of people seem to misunderstand is productivity. When you have everything at your finger tips witout having to switch windows and applications all the time, and you setup your Eclipse views to a way that makes sense for you then your productivity gets increased by about 500%. So the question you need to ask yourself is do you want to be productive and have it all at your finger tips, or are you happy to plot along switching windows and applications all time? Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Burns [mailto:cft...@burnsorama.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2010 2:58 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ > > > Thank you to all for the replies so far. Very helpful. Now that I've had some > time to evaluate CFBuilder, I'd like to revisit this thread. I'm not bashing on > CFB here - honest questions: considering that I'm not starting from scratch > but already have the functionality of DreamWeaver at my disposal, I'm > struggling to figure out the *incremental* value of CFB. > > Things I like about CFB are the code completion (member functions, etc. > although it doesn't always work), the *idea* of a community of extensions, > and easy refactoring. > > Things I wonder about: > - I see RDS but I don't understand how that can compete with having SSMS in > another window. > - I see the TailView but I'm used to opening 'tail -f' in another shell window. > - I see the plugin for Subversion integration but I have TortoiseSVN hooked > into Windows Explorer. > - So far the idea of extensions are great but I can run things like varscoper > standalone without much effort and (correct me if I'm wrong!) but > Apptacular is meant for the ORM features in CF9 and I have customers on > CF8 so I'll keep using PU-36 standalone. > > In short, what I see from CFB is a lot of tools integrated into one window. It > feels "tidy" but I'm not convinced there's *real* value there (beyond what I > get with DW). What am I missing? > > Thanks, > db > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
