The full application is great as it has good tag and library code insight. The full deployment of Flex Builder has a good starting amount of features, but for those who are used Eclipse will have a large amount of tools loaded in their plugins directory.
So, it depends on you really. Do you use XML for data? You would probably want an application that will validate your XML and create custom DTDs. Do you use webservices? And if you do use web services, what platform? You may write your webservices in PHP, .Net or CF. If you do write in CF, you may prefer CFEclipse over the full application editor. Eclipse = Lots of choice Cheers, Teddy On 1/7/07, John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same here, doing java and coldfusion as well with eclipse the plugin works best for me. BTW, guys I have linked up the discussion list to Mail-archive.com<http://mail-archive.com/>. I'll send a link once the archive becomes active. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Douglas Knudsen *Sent:* Sunday, January 07, 2007 2:12 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flex Builder: Full App or Plug-in? I follow the way of the plug-in :) I'm not a Flash developer though. I like the plug-in coupled with the WTP package from eclipse. Has all the goodies already including Java editors, etc, etc. Now throw in the CFEclipse plugin and you got the veritable kitchen sink to work in, as long as you can get it stable that is. Since settings are relative to a workspace, not eclipse wide, can you possibly use the same eclipse instance and just setup for MTASC in workspace one, and not in workspace two maybe? Been a bit since I played with MTASC. DK On 1/7/07, Leif Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > This is a question that I have been asking a few people and I thought > that ask it here: > > Do you prefer installing the Flex Builder as a full application or as an > Eclipse plug-in? > > Personally, I use the full application. > > Reason: since I do all of my Flash work inside Eclipse with the Flash > Development Tool and MTASC, I like having separate environments to develop > Actionscript 2.0 applications and MXML/Actionscript 3.0 applications. > Sure, I could load all of these plug-ins into one Eclipse installation, but > I enjoy the segregation. > > What do you guys prefer? > > Also, I have installed the powerful CFEclipse plug-in to my Flex > Builder environment. Are there other plug-ins that you use that you can't > live without? > > Leif > -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?
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