This post is one of those where I am hoping somebody can provide me with some assistance.
I have been using CFBuilder on Snow Leopard for months now. I love it. I especially love the server consoles, the tailview, and the RDS services. The only thing I have not loved about it are the occasional crashes, but I expect it from beta software.
In the last week however, they have become more than occasional. They have become regular. CFBuilder constantly is hanging, eating up all of my CPU, and giving me constant Java Heap Space errors. Ususally it's trying to build project settings or index projects, and I can let them go on for literally hours at a time and nothing will happen. I've had to Force Quit CFBuilder numerous times now.
I went so far as to uninstall it and do a fresh install, no avail.
If anyone has some things that could help me, I would be appreciative. I'm back using CFEclipse, and it's just not the same for me.
Feb 18, 2010 at 5:22 PM Well as part of the CFEclipse team I'd encourage you to stick with CFEclipse but... :)
Check the MXUnit blog (http://blog.mxunit.org/) Marc has done a few blog posts about CFBuilder performance that may help. And I'd suggest running it as a plugin to Eclipse rather than a standalone installation.
Feb 18, 2010 at 5:28 PM Have you tried Optimizing ColdFusion Builder performance http://bit.ly/bfXTil ?
Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM @Jim I found a plugin for Eclipse which has added another feature I loved in CFBuilder but had not seen in Eclipse before, FileSync plugin for Eclipse. Automatic syncing from my workspace to my dev web sites is invaluable.
I like CFEclipse, don't get me wrong. The RDS integration was a big selling point for me for CFBuilder, it's something I use daily.
I will probably try it as a plugin to another instance of Eclipse and see how that works. I'll also look at those optimizations, thanks to both. Anything in particular of those that worked wonders?
Feb 18, 2010 at 5:48 PM Rob,
One thing I did to calm cfbuilder down was to change the Server Settings preference. I changed mine to only "initiate build when" the server is refreshed. For me, this got rid of a lot of the "building settings" churn that was going on.
the downside is that component changes aren't picked up with component insight until I refresh, but honestly to this point I haven't had much luck with component insight anyway (probably due to the way my projects are set up, but I'm not sure), so it hasn't been that big of a deal.
Feb 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM 2 cents:
Unfortunately I ran into similar problems using CFBuilder on Windows Vista too. It would crash and/or hang unexpectedly more and more frequently, hog resources and respond slow after being open for a while. It's just became sucha frustration and a huge cause of interruption in my work flow that I found myself thinking about when it was next going to crash or hang instead of concentrating on my work.
Call me lazy but I really can't be bothered debugging and tweaking CFBuilder to work myself. That's not my job :-p.
I like the potential so I plan on checking it out again when it's more potential. For the time being though Dreamweaver is still a personal favourite for me. I know it's not for others, but for me I find it is the IDE that I am able to work the fastest and most efficiently in when programming both HTML/CSS/JS pages of ColdFusion applications.
Feb 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM Well, I unchecked all the build server settings options, and I also disabled refreshing the CFC's in a project. These seem to be the biggest culprits in making my CFBuilder usage a pain. Too bad because those probably would be some time savers, but they are definitely nice-to-haves.
I did install the FileSync plugin to CFBuilder, replacing the Aptana (I think) synchronization. I like the plugin much better, automatic syncing without user intervention.
I also found a checkbox for showing the current heap status in the general settings. it has an icon to run the garbage collector manually which has helped keep things under control too.
I certainly hope these stability issues are addressed before this goes final. I don't see much complaining about it on Adobe's site though so I am a tad worried about the prospects.
Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM Oh and Jim, not to worry, I will definitely be keeping CFEclipse as a backup option, and will definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a free solution.