Now Available: ColdFusion Builder, Flex 4, Flash Builder 4

Title says it all. We've just released:

ColdFusion Builder – This new Eclipse-based IDE for ColdFusion development is deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9 in addition to making it fast and easy for CF developers to create Flex applications with integration between ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder.
Flex 4 – Including the new Spark skinning and component architecture enabling a new level of expressiveness in RIAs in addition to supporting the new Flash Catalyst to Flash Builder workflow.
Flash Builder 4 - There are over 90 new features in this release, and you can use them with both Flex 3 and Flex 4 to gain big improvements in development time, integration and building more expressive apps.

ColdFusion Builder is priced at $299 and comes with a copy of Flash Builder 4 Standard. Or, for $699 you can buy Flash Builder 4 Premium which also includes a copy of ColdFusion Builder. Worth noting: like ColdFusion itself, ColdFusion Builder is free for educational purposes.

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george March 22, 2010

TOO EXPENSIVE! i'll stick to free tools like eclipse. this was a great opportunity for adobe to make CF popular but they have stuffed it up again by being greedy...

Adam Lehman (Adobe) March 22, 2010

@Ryan -- You can upgrade from Flex Builder 3 Pro to Flash Builder 4 Pro for only $299. Flash Builder 4 Pro comes w/ ColdFusion Builder.

Ryan Guill March 22, 2010

Does CFBuilder come with the upgrade pricing as well? If we have FlexBuilder 3 Professional and upgrade to Flash Builder 4 Premium do we still get CFBuilder as well?

Jason Fisher March 22, 2010

This is great, Ben, glad to see it finally hit. The CFB blog notes that a number of performance issues were fixed since the last beta release, but I saw nothing in the latest release notes. Can you comment on that? Tough to shell out $300 for each of my developers for a platform that may not be usable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, which the last beta wasn't.

Adam Lehman (Adobe) March 22, 2010

@Jason. It's true. We spent an additional 4 months working on performance and bug fixing since the last public beta. You should huge improvements. Go ahead an download the 60-day trial from Adobe.com (http://bit.ly/TryBolt) to see for yourself.

Dave Werden April 5, 2010

I am just trying to get into CF Builder. I was hoping it would be a way for someone not familiar with Eclipse to get started. Right now I am stuck trying to use the Flash Builder that is supposed to be included. I can't find it! It's not part of the installation that I can see, and the help files don't show me how.

Jean-Claude KURDZIEL September 4, 2010

Coldfusion can query views in SQL server Using flashbuilder 4 data/services with CF9 for a definite datasource, I can see the database tables but not the views Am I missing an option or was this option not anticipated ?

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