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RDS Support for CFEclipse

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 06-30-2006 | 6,902 views

Just an FYI, as I wasn't sure of this myself. You do not need Flex Builder 2 in order to get the cool new RDS support for CFEclipse. It is part of the CF 7.0.2 update, and not part of the FB2 download. RDS lets you browse remote files and databases. The database support is probably my favorite feature as I tend to easily forget the name of particular columns from time to time. There are other cool features in this plugin as well, so it is even worth checking out if you don't plan to upgrade to 7.0.2 yet.

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Tom Chiverton said on 06-30-2006 at 7:53 AM #
Not sure what you mean here Ray, as you say "RDS Support for CFEclipse" is "part of CF 7.0.2".

Are you saying just installing the CF update will give CFEclipse RDS support, or that I need CF7.0.2 and CFEclipse 1.3beta (and thus Eclipse 3.2) ?

I've currently got all of the above, plus the plugins from the FB2 download, and do have RDS as well as the CF Wizards in Eclipse, but it would be nice to know what actually gave me what as I just did everything :-)
Az said on 06-30-2006 at 9:04 AM #
Ray,

I could not find the plug-in for eclipse installed anywhere by the ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 update. I did however find the plug-in was unpacked to the install files location when running the Flex Builder 2.0 install package. Although the plug-in could be added to my current Eclipse 3.1.2 installation it would not connect to a testing server over the internet. A local virtual machine running as a development server it was able to connect to successfully. The only difference between the two servers was that the local instance was running version 7.0.2 and the remote server was running the old version 7.0.1 update and that one was on the local network and one was over the internet. The remote server I was able to connect to via both Dreamweaver 8 and the ColdFusion Report Builder. Do you know if you have to be running the 7.0.2 update on a ColdFusion server to be able to use the Eclipse RDS support plug-in?

Az
Lola Lee Beno said on 06-30-2006 at 9:40 AM #
I must admit I'm a bit confused, too. Where would i find this on my OSX setup, having installed the 7.02 update?

And by the way, it seems that Adobe has released the source code for FlexBuilder 2 . . . I hope someone can take this and compile it to run on the OSX platform (hint, hint). ;-)
Tom Chiverton said on 06-30-2006 at 9:57 AM #
Lola- it's not the source to the whole of FB, sorry :-)
Raymond Camden said on 06-30-2006 at 10:06 AM #
Tom, sorry. The RDS support should work (afaik) with CF 6 and higher I believe. You should not need to actually install 7.0.2.

Az, I see you are asking the same. When I get back home I'll ping my contact at Adobe.

Lola, I'm not sure.

All in all - sorry guys for not being helpful. :) Can I blame the conference for keeping me too busy to help? ;)
Raymond Camden said on 06-30-2006 at 10:12 AM #
Ouch. I may be 100% wrong guys! I'm going to try to confirm as fast as possible, but you may have to download FB.

I -can- say they don't time out though. So they -are- free, and that was the main thing I wanted to get across.

-Very- sorry for the confusion, and when I get it cleared up I'll post a correction.
Az said on 06-30-2006 at 12:42 PM #
Ray,

The ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2.0 are packaged with the Flex Builder download. If these are truly going to be made available on a permanent basis as a free tool for Flex and CFEclipse users they should package it up for download and make it available in the same tools area where the ColdFusion Report Builder and ColdFusion Extension for Dreamweaver are made available for individual download. An ever better idea would be to bring a live update online to distribute bug fixes and bleeding edge releases to those willing to work with beta versions.

I've narrowed my RDS connectivity issues down, it appears as though it works fine to ColdFusion MX 6.0 servers and above, even over an internet link as long as the internet link is not Hughesnet/Direcway. I live in a rural area and that is the only access available other than dial-up. There seems to be some connectivity issue between the Java based Eclipse IDE and my connection. This issue doesn't exist with the ColdFusion Report Builder or Dreamweaver 8.

Az
Raymond Camden said on 06-30-2006 at 12:52 PM #
I posted a new entry. Again - I apologize guys. I do try to double check these things before I post. Az - please be sure to log a bug on what you found. You can do so here: http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish
Az said on 06-30-2006 at 2:53 PM #
The bug has been reported. I really like Eclipse with CFEclipse and RDS support would be very nice. Hopefully they can get this bug ironed out and also get support for Eclipse 3.2 built in soon.
Scot said on 07-01-2006 at 2:27 PM #
So is it a server fix or an eclipse fix?
Raymond Camden said on 07-01-2006 at 2:30 PM #
CF Server supports RDS. It works with Dreamweaver. The RDS extensions simply give CFEclipse the same powers.
Lola Lee Beno said on 07-04-2006 at 10:58 AM #
Andy Jarrett has extracted and zipped up the files for the RDS extension - http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/andy/blog/index.cfm/2... - I gave it a twirl and it works great. Love being able to access the database and run queries right within CFEclipse . . .
Bill said on 07-24-2007 at 1:39 PM #
I'm getting an error trying to use this:

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
org/eclipse/ui/internal/editors/text/JavaFileEditorInput

It connects to servers just fine but I get that when I try to download a cfm doc.
Raymond Camden said on 07-24-2007 at 1:54 PM #
Bill, you should file a bug report on the forums.
John Selph said on 08-19-2008 at 3:09 PM #
Raymond,
you wrote
"CF Server supports RDS. It works with Dreamweaver. The RDS extensions simply give CFEclipse the same powers".

I finally got it running at my office but it does not exactly have the same powers that DW has. My DW can do puts/gets from my local machine to a web server. As I look at CFE/RDS, I can only work with files on the remote web server. Unless I'm doing it wrong, which I've been known to do now and then.

Am I doing it wrong?
John
Raymond Camden said on 08-19-2008 at 8:17 PM #
Are you saying, DW can _push_ a file remotely? I don't think that is RDS, but FTP. I know I can _make_ a new file with Eclipse+RDS. So at the least you could make the new file, then copy and paste from local to remote.
Rob said on 09-03-2008 at 7:58 AM #
Anyone run into the problem where RDS works in DW but not in Flex 3 or cfeclipse? When attempting to connect to one of my remote CF servers I get this error in Flex 3 and CFEclipse "Unable to Contact the RDS server 'servername'".

RDS is configured correctly as I can connect via DW CS3 from the same machine. Makes no sense to me.
Rob said on 09-03-2008 at 7:59 AM #
Almost forgot. I can connect to other RDS servers from both Flex 3 and CFEclipse.
Rob said on 09-03-2008 at 8:16 AM #
I figured out (sort of) my RDS problem.

It has something to do with the "Context Root". We do have some password protected directories on some of our sites so I thought I could change the Context Root from the path to one of our sites to just the root of the C drive (C:\ or c:). Still no luck. Then I tried the root of D (d:\ or d:) still not luck. So I left that field blank and it worked.

So if you know RDS is configured properly and DWCS3 connects with the same settings just leave the "Context Root" field blank.

I confirmed this on my laptop. As long as the "Context Root" field is blank it works.

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