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ColdFusion Builder Trial: subclipse issues

Posted At : April 13, 2012 12:00 AM | Posted By : Matthew Williams
Related Categories: CF Builder 2, ColdFusion 9.x

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

I use Subclipse for almost all my projects, as pretty much everything is hosted on my Subversion server.  I've never had issues installing Subclipse before so this was new to me.  I ran into the same exact problem as found here http://mineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/coldfusion-builder-beta-3-and-subclipse.html (Subclipse won't all you to click the license agreement), but again no resolution that I could find.

This was much simpler to resolve.  It looks like some dependencies aren't being met for Subclipse.  I added the site for http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios to the list of software update providers (Help -> Install New Software).  I grabbed everything from the collaboration packages, but you can probably get away with just the missing ones.  The Subclipse install tells you which these are, but to err on the safe side, I grabbed everything.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine.  I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

I use Subclipse for almost all my projects, as pretty much everything is hosted on my Subversion server.  I've never had issues installing Subclipse before so this was new to me.  I ran into the same exact problem as found here http://mineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/coldfusion-builder-beta-3-and-subclipse.html, but again no resolution that I could find.

This was much simpler to resolve. 

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

I use Subclipse for almost all my projects, as pretty much everything is hosted on my Subversion server.  I've never had issues installing Subclipse before so this was new to me.  I ran into the same exact problem as found here http://mineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/coldfusion-builder-beta-3-and-subclipse.html, but again no resolution that I could find.

This was much simpler to resolve.  It looks like some dependencies aren't being met for Subclipse.  I added the site for http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios to the list of software update providers (Help -> Install New Software).  I grabbed everything from the collaboration packages, but you can probably get away with just the missing ones.  The Subclipse install tells you which these are, but to err on the safe side, I grabbed everything.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine.  I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

It looks like some dependencies aren't being met for Subclipse.  I added the site for http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios to the list of software update providers (Help -> Install New Software).  I grabbed everything from the collaboration packages, but you can probably get away with just the missing ones.  The Subclipse install tells you which these are, but to err on the safe side, I grabbed everything.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine.  I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

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ColdFusion Builder Trial: connecting up RDS

Posted At : April 12, 2012 3:30 PM | Posted By : Matthew Williams
Related Categories: JRun, CF Builder 2, ColdFusion 9.x

My it's been awhile hasn't it?  New job, old job, and other jobs between have been keeping me more busy than I can even relate.

Just for kicks I've decided to give the CFBuilder trial a whirl.  It's being evaluated by the office, and we were having some issues connecting it up to RDS on our local machines.  This lead to the some exploring to find out where the problem lies.

First I went out and grabbed CF Builder 2.  http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-builder.html.  After it got done installing I tried setting up an RDS interface to my local CF 9 install.  And, whoops, hit upon the same error my co-worker saw.  It's fairly unhelpful, mostly just a null java pointer exception.  It lead me to this page on the Adobe forums http://forums.adobe.com/message/4234561, but offered no real resolution.

It dawned on me that RDS was likely not enabled during the installation of CF 9 on my current laptop.  I did the following to address the issue with RDS not connecting (note, some steps may not be necessary, such as adding a new RDS user, but it didn't work for me without one).

  • Open your ColdFusion administrator interface and under the security left hand navigation set both administrator and RDS to use Separate user name and password authentication (allows multiple users) .
  • Create a new RDS user and give them every authority under the sun (eh, it's local).
  • Open up the ColdFusion instance web.xml, and this will vary depending on how you installed ColdFusion.  Mine was found in C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\WEB-INF.  The multi-server install will be in a path similar to <jrun-install>\servers\<instance>\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF.
  • Do a search on RDS.  There should be two separate <servlet> mappings which need to be uncommented.  Uncomment each block.
  • Restart ColdFusion.
  • In CF Builder add a new server for RDS (or edit an existing one).  It was a tab in the bottom pane of the program for my installation.
    • Server Name:  This can be any value, it's just used the purpose of display
    • Application Server: I'll presume you're using JRun
    • Host Name: localhost
    • WebServer Port: 8500 for standard install, consult jrun.xml if you're using multi-server
    • RDS User Name: Name used in the previous step
    • RDS Password: Again, from a previous step
    • Click Next
    • Server Home: Mine was C:\ColdFusion9, not sure where this is on multi-server
    • Document Root: It defaults to wwwroot for the ColdFusion9 folder, and I don't see a reason to change it.
    • Click Finish

After the above, both my co-worker and I were able to successfully connect to our RDS services.

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