CFEclipse on Windows

March 27, 2007

If you want to get CFEclipse up and runing on Windows then this what you need to do:

Installing Eclipse IDE

  1. Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
  2. Download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (windows version)
  3. Extract the zip file to your Program File directory (you don’t install eclipse from an exe or msi file)
  4. Open the directory you extracted your files to
  5. Right click on the eclipse.exe file, hold and drag to your start menu to create a shortcut

Installing CFEclipse

  1. Run eclipse
  2. Accept the default Workspace (you can change it later)
  3. From the help menu, select Software Updates -> Find and Install
  4. Select the “Search for new features” radio button. Next.
  5. Click the “New Remote Site” button
  6. Enter CFEclipse as the name
  7. Enter http://www.cfeclipse.org/update for the URL. OK.
  8. Click the Finish Button
  9. Eclipse will now go off and check the CFEclipse site
  10. Tick all plugin boxes
  11. The next steps are self explainatory…
  12. …Restart Eclipse

Changing the font size and / or colours

  1. Windows menu -> preferences
  2. Expand General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
  3. Expand the Basic folder in the dialog box
  4. Click on Text Font
  5. Click the Change button
  6. Choose your font

View line numbers

  1. Windows menu -> preferences
  2. Expand General -> Editors
  3. Tick the Show Line Numbers box

If you’re new to Eclipse then you should know that you can’t just open a file, first you need to create a new project.

  1. File -> New Project
  2. open the CFEclipse folder and select CFML Project. Next
  3. Enter your project name
  4. Untick the “use default option” box
  5. Browse to your project folder. Finish.

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