CF8 Debugger Setup -- More Newbie Tidbits

I have beaten my head over the last few days... even to the point of looking up Charlie Arehart's suicide hotline (i.e. tech support for those who are so stuck they want to boot the whole sche-bang).

The issue? While I can see my CF8 Debugger mapping to my eclipse and my RDS dataview is loverly... I cannot for the life of me get a project to map and debug a file.

The real problem? I am tripping up mentally on just what an 'Eclipse Project' is. Since Eclipse wants a 'project workspace', I set one up. I tried importing files from my local webserver.... nada... But let me digress a moment.

To fully appreciate the situation, I need to explain my setup. I have a 3 computer network for development. One is my beefy dev computer LAN'd to 2 'servers', one running CFMX7 on IIS, and one running CF8 on IIS. I use RDS to connect and test sites on either server based on what version of Coldfusion the site was developed in. So, My Eclipse, on my local server, needed to map via RDS to CF8 (got that one). I could see the nice little server running, but I could not get a file to open without being in a project.

The solution is to 1) make your web folder your project folder for the application. 2)Right click on the Project folder and Refresh to see your files. 3) Right click again and set the CF Mapping to be the root of your application. If your application for Bubba's BBQ is c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bubba on the webserver, but http://127.0.0.2/bubba/ on the IIS, then you'd enter the http://127.0.0.2/bubba/ as the CF Mapping. (I have named my servers so I don' thave to type all those IP addresses, but can refer to the IP via the computer's name). And Voila, I was debugging!