Adam, thanks for the response. I realize Eclipse is not an adobe product, but the CF plugin for Eclipse is an adobe product, at least according to the eclipse website and the fact that the plugins are supposedly now available for download here on Adobe's site.

Also per this post on cfeclipse site: http://groups.google.com/group/cfeclipse-users/browse_thread/thread/75 b81afe3ef6f7e4/a3f1a3becc5846c5?lnk=gst&q=RDS+Viewer#a3f1a3becc5846c5

I do have and use CF Builder 2(the trial version), but fowwling the tutorials on lynda.com that use Cfeclipse sometimes is not possible, since they seem to use tools specific only to cfeclipse. I've actually switched back and forth between cfbuilder and cfeclipse in the same series of tutorials, but have now come to an empass: hence this post.

I've searched all over cfeclipse.org for the right plugin download with no luck yet. Perhaps I'll keep trying.

12Robots wrote:

 

ColdFusion Builder is an Adobe product, CFEclipse is not.

 

You can find the instructions to install the CFEclipse plugin into Eclipse here: http://trac.cfeclipse.org/wiki/InstallingCfeclipse

Thanks, but again as I stated above, I have already installed CFEclipse and everything works fine. The above link I gave is from the cfeclipse help system and in it states that the PLUG-IN for CFEclipse is an adobe product. Here is the documentation for the CF8 Extension for Eclipse on Adobe. http://http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?conte nt=othertechnologies_11.html

Again, it seems the pnly problem I'm having is that the RDS Viewer is not present in CFEclipse. Like I said, maybe because I'm using a newer version of CFEclipse, or a newer version of CF is causing the problem, but I'd like to find some explaination somewhere. Thanks again for any help.

Well just like in Coldfusion Builder2, the RDS view allows you to connect to and see your database and tables and create standard tag based queries as well as ORM queries. It also allows you to run queries before inserting the actual SQL code into your template or cfc.

Obviously I could do the tutorials without this functionality, but being able to see your db and table structures real time is very helpful while coding queries. I do like CF builder much better than CFeclipse, but eclipse does have some things that the tutorial goes through that cf builder doesnt have, and its frustrating sometimes trying to follow along. Thats what I was switching back and forth between the two IDE's.

I'll keep looking. I actually still have CF8 on my desktop at work, so I think I'll try to install CFEclipse on that machine and see if the RDS functionality is there. Then I'll know it has something to do with CF9. Might even look for the version of CFeclipse the tutorial is using. 3.2 I think.