Since my last post with regards to the release of CFEclipse V 1.1.16
I thought I would post an interview with the main guy behind the project Rob Rohan.

Mark Drew: What is CFEclipse?
Rob Rohan: CFEclipse is a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that provides CFML support to Eclipse. In addition to code insight and syntax highlighting, CFEclipse adds CFML specific tools to Eclipse such as CFML outlining, CFC method outline, and CFML problem reporting. It also adds some cool tools that improve development / spelunking time and some can work with other plug-ins - like Snippets for example.

MD: How did you get involved in the project?
RR: I started it.

MD: What were you doing before this/what is your background?
RR: I don't really have a before project per se - I have a lot of active projects that get worked on in slices as time / interest allows. Some open source developers have just one project, and some have many projects going all the time - their pay job often being one of them; I fall into the later category.
As for my background I am a freelance hacker hailing from the Bay Area.
I mostly code in Java, or C++, but turn to ColdFusion for web applications. I have been coding for about 8 years for profit, and for about 18 years for fun (apple][e woot woot).

(For the corporate types: hacker as in the "computer enthusiast" sense not the media's criminal, steal-your-credit-card, sense)

MD: Why Eclipse as the IDE?
RR: At the time I was running Linux as my workstation and Net Beans as my Java IDE. Net Beans was pissing me off so I took the plunge, tried Eclipse, liked it, and switched all my Java projects to Eclipse. Around that time I got a couple contracts to do some ColdFusion work, so I started looking for either an Eclipse plug-in or a IDE that would run on Linux. I didn't find much, and wound up using JEdit for my ColdFusion development.

JEdit is cool, but it lacks a few niceties that I wanted in a ColdFusion environment. I started to write a better ColdFusion plug-in for JEdit, but then it dawned on me that I could just do it in Eclipse and then I'd only need the one IDE (plus Eclipse is faster). So, taking the long way around, I went with Eclipse because it's faster, has better Java tools, and works well on Linux (and on Mac which I now use for my workstation).