No, this is actually a Good Thing(tm). Eclipse is a mature environment
with lots of people improving it regularly. And because of its plugin
architecture, you can use it for all sorts of things.
Not to mention a big step forward from Flex 1/1.5 which was a messed up version
of Dreamweaver.
I have 2 installs:
- FlexBuilder + Subclipse (with integrated Eclipse updated to 3.3)
- Eclipse (Ganymede 3.4 http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede/) + FDT + CFEclipse +
EclipseNSIS + Subclipse (and a few others)
Why?
Well Flex Builder standalone can be updated (the Eclipse part) but not to the latest version (3.4).
Updating Eclipse to 3.3 is fine though.
The latest CFEclipse plugin requires Eclipse 3.4 so I installed Eclipse
separatly for that :)
regards,
Muzak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Watts" <[email protected]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
This experience has made me really dislike the fact that Adobe essentially
built an Eclipse Plug-in instead of a single app, but I also understand why
they did it
No, this is actually a Good Thing(tm). Eclipse is a mature environment
with lots of people improving it regularly. And because of its plugin
architecture, you can use it for all sorts of things. For example, my
Eclipse install includes FlexBuilder, J2EE toolchain, CFEclipse,
Oxygen, Aptana, etc. And there are lots of third-party tools to help
manage Eclipse and plugin updates.
> If you're using the Flex Builder integrated install
What does that mean? How would I know? Thanks.
You can either install Flex Builder with Eclipse, or into an existing
Eclipse install. The version of Eclipse that comes with Flex Builder
is not the latest version - if I recall correctly, it's 3.2.
To find out which you have, the integrated Flex Builder/Eclipse is
installed in c:\program files\adobe, while if you installed Eclipse
separately, it'd be wherever you put it - typically, c:\eclipse. Also,
you get different splash screens.
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