I don't think we considered it much because Eclipse had already established itself as the industry leader (which I acknowledge doesn't mean it's the best). We were all using IntelliJ for our Java development before we made that decision, and some of our compiler engineers still use IntelliJ even though we all have Flex Builder (and therefore Eclipse) installed. Other folks had Netbeans installed for their Java development though I'm not sure they use it anymore. But one reason to build on Eclipse is the name recognition that it gave so if we could make it work technically it seemed like the right thing to do. Matt
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul deCoursey Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 7:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers? I'm probably in a minority, but I don't like Eclipse, but it is better than building off of Dreamweaver. Was any thought put to building it one the NetBeans platform? Matt Chotin wrote: > We always knew we needed an IDE, Flex 1.0 had a version of Flex Builder > but it was built on top of the Dreamweaver codebase because we thought > it had the most similarities. After doing one version of that we > realized it was a mistake and moved to Eclipse :-) > > Matt >
