To add, I suggest reading through the Eclipse tutorials, they speak to this
and other things pretty well. As Teddy said, workspaces are pretty much
what the phrase evokes, a space to work in. This includes settings and
such so you can have say personalized settings for one workspace and a
different set for another. After you are working in Eclipse in a chosen
workspace, projects can be stored anywhere on your PC or network for that
matter. Meta-data about the project is stored in the current workspace, but
the actual files can be anywhere. For Flex, Java, or J2EE projects I always
keep the projects in my workspace. For CF only projects, I keep the project
in the webroot. But I never store a workspace in the webroot.
DK
On 6/27/07, Teddy R Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Usually when working with workspaces, you will have the option to switch
wherever you keep your workspace. By deleting the workspace folder, it will
reset your perspectives and views. You can also switch your workspace to a
previously saved workspace when you really like your settings. The
workspace is only to keep metadata about your development environment.
As for design versus code, Dreamweaver CS3 is about $400. You can get
myEclipse professional for $52 or regular for $31. There is a free trial to
try it out.
You can see the features of myEclipse from:
http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-12.html
There are plugins for Eclipse for just about every tool you can think of
and you can mix, match and configure in quite detail. That is why workspace
comes into importance as you want to save all your configurations.
Two common eclipse plugin sites:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/index.jsp
Teddy
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Tom McNeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* discussion@acfug.org
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:04 PM
*Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFEclipse question - default project
Seth,
I'm not sure how you can re-set the default workspace -- which is the
default space for saving projects. There's no obvious mechanism or
documentation, and this question has been asked in a number of forums. But
it's simple enough, when creating a project, to point it wherever you want.
Eclipse will still keep track of it, and keep it in the Navigator tab. I
often create the project in a space on my dev server, which is also the
actual web space.
I've been using Eclipse for probably a year and a half, and I still feel
overwhelmed sometimes. It's the nature of the plug-in architecture it's
built on. I just bang away, knowing there's all sorts of functionality I
just don't even know about.
Jeff,
Aside from the cost issue can anyone give me some input on the pros and
> cons of Eclipse vs. DW/Homesite?
>
I think they'll become pretty obvious as you continue to use Eclipse. It's
going to feel unfamiliar and clunky for a long, long time. But I think
you'll find it's worth the trouble.
Homesite's dead, as far as Adobe's concerned. They "support" CFEclipse
(sorta) and obviously use Eclipse for FlexBuilder. Actually, that's one good
reason to get used to Eclipse. You'll probably want to start working with
Flex, too.
And that illustrates why Eclipse is a good tool: folks can, and do,
constantly build new tools as plug-ins on top of it. You'll find yourself
adding Javascript editors and XML editors and database tools that you
prefer.
Mark Drew, the CFEclipse guy, has already released CF8 syntax libraries
for CFEclipse. And Adobe provides RDS plug-ins, if you've gotten used to
them in Homesite.
If you need to build visually, you'll use Dreamweaver. If not, you'll use
Eclipse. I go back and forth all the time.
And the more you separate presentation from the model, the more your
individual files are going to be either all code, or all display with a
little logic thrown in. So using both comes pretty naturally.
There's a CFEclipse mailing list, by the way, although there's not a lot
of activity on it. But if you ask questions there, people will help. And
you'll find Eclipse-related conversations on CF-Talk, too.
Good luck with it. You'll like it -- eventually.
--
Thanks,
Tom
Tom McNeer
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