Eclipse RDS Support

So you have probably heard by now by one of your friends that CFEclipse is a great product. You decide for yourself that you're going to download it and start playing around with it. Most likely you are stuck in your ways and pushed it away only to come back to it time and time again out of pure curiosity. How about that, now you're hooked and refuse to ever use anything else. Wait a minute though I need to get RDS up and going or I just can not use this anymore. Do not fear I am going to take you through a quick walkthrough on getting it setup. In some following posts I might dig into it deeper but we are just here to get it installed. At the time of writing this article RDS is not supported in Eclipse 3.2 yet. So what's the wait for, let's get going.

1. The first thing you need to do is go download the ColdFusion FlexBuilder Extensions zip file
2. In Eclipse goto Help > Software Updates > Find and Install > Search for new features to install
3. Select New Archived Site > and select the ColdFusion FlexBuilder Extension zip you downloaded in step one > OK.
4. Click Finish and follow the steps to complete the installation. You will need to restart the workbench to let the changes to affect.

Congratulations, you now have RDS Support for Eclipse. So what did I just install? To make some common coding tasks easier, the Coldfusion Flex Builder extensions include the following:

• Eclipse RDS Support plug-in, which lets you server.
• ColdFusion/Flex Application wizard, which application to create, read, update, and delete
• RDS CRUD wizard, which lets you dynamically based on a table that is registered in the ColdFusion
• ActionScript to CFC wizard, which lets you file
• CFC to ActionScript wizard, which lets you Value Object
• Services Browser, which lets you browse CFCs, the CFML code to invoke a web service.

To configure any ColdFusion servers that you want to connect to using RDS

1. In eclipse select Window > Preferences > RDS Configuraton
2. Click new to configure a new RDS Server
3. Fill out the server information similar to the image above
4. Apply, Ok.

Now that we have our server configured how do we view the server? You probably have CFEclipse open right now so all we need to do is add the view. Select Window > Show View > Other > Coldfusion > RDS FileView. I like to put the view on my left along with my navigator and file explorer but you can place it wherever you need to. I hope this quicky was able to help someone get RDS up and running. Please remember that at the time of this writing RDS will not work with Eclipse 3.2 but support is not that far out.