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Correction on RDS for CFE Support

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 06-30-2006 | 4,217 views

In my last post I mistakenly mentioned that if you were only interested in the RDS support and not the complete Flex Builder, you could just download CFMX 7.0.2. This is not the case. For now, you must download Flex Builder 2 and run the .exe. So Mac users will need to dig up a PC for now. I'm hoping that Adobe provides a direct link just for these extensions.

Either way - I just wanted to help spread the word on these extensions and make sure folks knew they were a) completely free and b) completely cool.

Enjoy, and sorry again for the mistake!

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Nathan D said on 06-30-2006 at 1:10 PM #
Surprised to hear this is Windows-only given the number of folks using Macs for development these days.
bob said on 06-30-2006 at 1:28 PM #
I was given a zip file when I attended the Flex 2 workshop that had just the plug-ins for RDS in there. I also thought they were on labs.adobe.com somewhere too.
Kevin Benore said on 06-30-2006 at 2:13 PM #
So they are free, yet you have to download a trial of Flex Builder?
dave said on 06-30-2006 at 3:07 PM #
they used to be under the flex downloads, maybe they are on the main adobe site now, the file was called CF_FBExtensions_B3_0515.zip.

also codeweavers has their program in beta to run windows programs directly in osx just like their linux version, not sure if it would work to suck that out of the exe though
Chris said on 06-30-2006 at 4:30 PM #
In the case of this .exe, is this just a self-extracting archive? If so, can't you re-name the .exe to .zip and then unzip it on OS X? I thought there was something to that?
Josen Ruiseco said on 07-01-2006 at 11:19 AM #
Is it truly free? What's with the trial version?
Raymond Camden said on 07-01-2006 at 2:16 PM #
The RDS extensions are free. Flex Builder 2 itself is a trial. Flex SDK is free.
Josen Ruiseco said on 07-02-2006 at 11:22 AM #
Thanks. Can you provide instructions for installing the extension? I don't see an exe, just a zip file.
Raymond Camden said on 07-02-2006 at 2:00 PM #
There are instructions. Trying to remember where. Check the release notes for Flex Builder 2.
Tom Chiverton said on 07-03-2006 at 4:14 AM #
Josen: It's trival - download the FlexBuilder trial. Either run the exe or otherwise extract the files from it - one of them will be a .zip file (CF_FB_Extensions.zip). Unzip this, and copy the contents of the features and plugins directory into the same dirs in you eclipse install. Start eclipse and the new views are available.

This works on my Linux box (though I had to use WINE to run the FlexBuilder installer to do the extraction).
Alan said on 07-07-2006 at 11:11 AM #
I put the features files in the features dir, and did the same with the plugins files from the zip.

Restarted Eclipse and I have the Views now, but none work. I have a choice in the prefs tree that says RDS Configuration, but when I click it I get an error message. I missed a step, anyone know what it is?
Raymond Camden said on 07-07-2006 at 11:15 AM #
Are you using Eclipse 3.2? The plugins only work on 3.1.X.
Alan said on 07-07-2006 at 11:18 AM #
Ray - version 3.0.2 - so I need to move up a notch, eh?
Raymond Camden said on 07-07-2006 at 11:22 AM #
Aye. I'm mostly sure on that. Just don't go to 3.2. It won't run there.
Kevin Benore said on 07-07-2006 at 9:28 PM #
Any word when it will work on 3.2, now that it has been released? From what I understand, you need 3.2 to run CFEclipse 1.3 beta. So I want the best of both worlds ... CFEclipse 1.3 beta and RDS!
Tom Chiverton said on 07-10-2006 at 4:43 AM #
I am using the CF_FBExtensions fine in Eclipse 3.2 on Linux.

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