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Has anyone had any luck in setting line debugging in Eclipse with the CFEclipse plugin? The instructions seem to be for the actual ColdFusion IDE. We are running ColdFusion 11. I've been playing around with the line debugger in FusionDebug, but I would like to give the native debugger a try as well. Does it require the ColdFusion IDE, or can it work within Eclipse with the CFEclipse plug-in?

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    There is no line debugger in CFEclipse. It's in CFBuilder, the Adobe developed, Eclipse based IDE for ColdFusion. CFEclipse is just a code editor. – Adrian J. Moreno Mar 27 '17 at 17:46
  • @AdrianJ.Moreno - FWIW, there *used to be* an extension that allowed line debugging with CFEclipse, maybe back around CF8 or CF9 (?). Probably a precursor to what is in CFBuilder, I am guessing. – Leigh Mar 27 '17 at 20:30
  • That seems to be consistent with what I've found as well. There had been a line debugger tool for CFEclipse, but it no longer is supported. – TheJerkMan24 Mar 27 '17 at 20:32
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    Yes, even if you could find a copy (good luck), no guarantees it would even work anymore. Better to try the newer version in CFBuilder. – Leigh Mar 27 '17 at 20:34
  • @Leigh Moved to an answer w/ more info. – Adrian J. Moreno May 09 '17 at 23:10

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CFEclipse is just a code editor. Looking at the feature list, it lists debugging, but only for CF 8:

Adobe released the ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse which included a step debugger and RDS tools. This is no longer supported by Adobe but still works in the latest CFEclipse versions.

Once Adobe released CFBuilder, thier complete Eclipse-based IDE for ColdFusion (which includes a step-debugger), I'm sure they stopped releasing those Eclipse extensions for newer versions of ColdFusion. This would stop CFEclipse and other free Eclipse based editors from providing step-debugging for CF 9 or later.

An alternate step-debugger would be FusionDebug, which I have used in the past to solve some serious problems in legacy code bases.

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