CF Builder Express Edition - Yeah, It's free!

Some big news from Adobe was released today: ColdFusion Builder will now have an express edition. What this means is that after your CFB trial expires, you will be able to continue using Builder save a few features that will be disabled. It is up to you to determine if those features are worth the $300 price tag.

Here are some of the features that will not be available in the free edition:

• Code Assist for Extensions
• Code Insight
• Extension Callbacks
• Connections to remote CF Servers
• Quick Fix
• Remote Project Debugging
• Refactoring
• ColdFusion Search
• Code Formatting
• FTP Support
• Log Viewer
• Local File Browser
• Code Hyperlinks
• Hover Help

For me, I use some of those features and the time savings is worth the $109 upgrade price. You'll have to make that decision for yourself, but regardless, CFB Express is still full featured.

Here is a link to all ColdFusion Builder 2 Features for comparison.