Comments on: Bolt Action?

By: Jim Priest

Jim Priest — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:32:59 +0000

At first I thought the Eclipse platform was a good pick (cross platform) but now they have stopped development of Flex Builder for Linux and that casts doubt on a Bolt for Linux either…

It’s also doubtful they’ll support the other CFML engines in Bolt.

By: Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:08:50 +0000

I haven’t had any stability issues with CFEclipse (my main IDE) and I’m on a Mac that still runs the 1.5 JRE!
From what I’ve seen of Bolt, it looks pretty slick, but the real determining factor for me will be what Adobe decides to charge for it.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:05:47 +0000

I’ve never had stability issues with Eclipse or with any of the Eclipse plugins I use, and I use them daily. I think probably the biggest issues come from the JVM that you run Eclipse on that makes it have issues. I use Ubuntu as my desktop, and the default JVM that comes with Ubuntu is NOT Sun’s JVM. Once I replace the default java with Sun’s Java, everything runs beautifully. I wonder if you have to do the same thing with Mac’s…

Maybe the best thing Adobe can do with Bolt is standardize the JVM that Bolt runs in. ;) Sort of like what they did by bundling CF with JRun and the JRE.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:42:55 +0000

I'm also a huge fan of CFEclipse. The CF Community owes a huge amount to Mark Drew for his work on that project, and I think it's great that he seems to be willing to continue in the face of a new CF specific IDE. CF could really benefit from an awesome native IDE that showcases the language, available frameworks, and the new native ORM.

By: Aaron Greenlee

Aaron Greenlee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:33:02 +0000

I agree that Adobe better get it right. They need to get any software release ‘right’.

Personally, I am a big fan of CFEclipse. its the best IDE for CF since Studio for me.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:08:56 +0000

I agree. Not very happy with the eclipse based product. Due to eclipse issues I do most of my coding in Dreamweaver anyway.

By: Freelance Web Developer

Freelance Web Developer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:26:09 +0000

Based on eclipse? Augh.
Like you, I use Coda primarily. I was hoping Bolt to be a decent OS-native app, to take advantage of the OS it’s on. Well, I guess if it has it’s own FTP module (that works) it wont be so bad.