That is a good question. Firstly, I have kept pretty good notes on all of these steps and will provide them to anyone who asks. Secondly, I play to evaluate FDT 4 when it comes out in a few months. I already have evaluated NetBeans which has a good Flex/Flexmojos/ Maven integration, but there are too many other things keeping me on Eclipse.
I don't think I have the skills to create a flexmojos Flash Builder 4 archetype, or to make a flexmojos "push-settings-to-flash-builder" goal. But I could write the specs for them if it would help. On Sep 22, 7:05 am, Marvin Froeder <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder what is your plan to make this painful steps less painful? > > Sent from DROID > > Em 22/09/2010 00:43, "David Vree" <[email protected]>escreveu: > > It depends on what you mean by "work." If you mean "work together" > then no...it was a huge disappointment (i'll explain). If you mean > "work at the same time but completely separately" then yes. > > Here's what I mean: > > Flex SDK: > Flash Builder requires you to download the SDK, store it locally, > and reference it from your projects...works great. > flex-mojos will use Maven to download all the SDK library files > from a Maven repository...works great. > The Problem: YOU need to make sure that the installed IDS SDK > version matches precisely with the Maven version or you will get two > "nearly identical" versions of the system running and it will make you > insane! You might think you could reference the Maven libraries from > your "~/.m2/repository" directory from the Flash project and not > reference the seperate SDK, but you'd be wrong. Thank Adobe for > that. Note that for 3rd party libraries, you can use flexmojos to > download it, and you can reference it from within FlashBuilder and > this will all work swimmingly. > > Flexmojo's Flex Builder Archetype > You might think I have mis-typed something by saying "Flex Builder > Archetype", but I have not. This is not a Flash Builder archetype and > the projects that get generated don't work in Flash Builder without a > significant amount of screwing around. Apparently a real Flash > Builder Archetype is NOT in the works. > > Source Paths: > You will want to go the "Maven Way" with this, which means you'll > need to carefully configure the Flash Builder projects to point to the > correct source paths. This sounds easy, but took me more than a day > to figure it out. I had to kill a chicken and read the entrails.... > > HTML Template: > You can check the box all you want in Flash Builder to get a > working HTML template, but for Flexmojos to "know" about it you need > to bind another goal to a life cycle phase. It all works great once > its properly configured, but that it going to require the use of the > maven-assembly-plugin and the maven-war-plugin overlay feature. To > get this working I had to meditate on a treetop for hours. > > Application File: > You're going to have to tell them both about your root application > file in each SWF project. Not a big deal, but don't get it wrong! > > Target Player Version: > You're going to have to tell them both about this too. Not a big > deal, but remember to keep them in sync! > > Expect more duplicate configuration for conditional compilation, > themes, runtime share libaries, locales, and modules. > > Let me close by saying that Flexmojos rocks the house and I wish that > FlashBuilder could be "mavenified" the way that the Java tools are in > Eclipse. I'd also say that now that I have it set up, they both are > really solid and working well. > > If I had to dump one or the other, I'd definitely dump Flash Builder. > I know you didn't ask, but since I am in am opinionated mood, I'll > take a moment and rip on Flash Builder: > > 1) WYSIWYS Design Mode -- Complete crap...the generated source code > violates every known good MXML and Actionscript programming standard. > Nice for demos, never ever use it in the real world. > > 2) BlazeDS and Web Service Integration -- Cannot be used, because the > Flash Builder project will need to be set up as "No Data Server" > because you'd have to be crazy to force the compilation of your SWF > artifact to require the services-config.xml file on the back-end > server. That is, as soon as you dynamically configure channels, Flash > Builder takes a hike. > > 3) Code Hinting -- Compared to Java tooling it's garbage. For > example, if you "paste" a class name, it won't give you the import > statement, but if you ctrl-space to select the class name..it will -- > WTF?!?!?? I've heard that FDT does a much better job at this. > > I could go on.... > > On Sep 21, 12:24 pm, game flash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the quick rep... > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Marvin Froeder <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Flexmojos can work... > > > Em 21/09/2010 12:41, "game_flash" <[email protected]>escreveu: > > > > Has anyone successfully setup Maven/Flex Mojos with Flash Develop IDE? > > > > Please share expe... > > > [email protected]<flex-mojos%[email protected]> > > <flex-mojos%[email protected]<flex-mojos%[email protected]> > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > > > >http://f... > > > [email protected]<flex-mojos%[email protected]> > > <flex-mojos%[email protected]<flex-mojos%[email protected]> > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > > > >http://f... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex Mojos" group. 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