Installing Flex Builder Plugin in MyEclipse
April 20th, 2009
This article puts emphasis on step by step installation of flex builder plugin in MyEclipse. These installation steps are carried out within Windows platform, but no need to worry you can follow these steps in any platform, only one thing to keep in mind is, to download the platform specific flex builder from the Adobe Site.
Follow the below given steps:- Download the Flex builder Plugin version from Adobe Site
- Launch the installer. Installer starts up with the language selection screen.
- Choose language of wish (Default is English) and click Ok, Introduction screen appears, and click next.
- Next Screen is License Agreement. Read the License Agreement and click Yes to accept and continue.
- Next Comes Choosing program and data location.
- For Windows default path would be “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in“; Select the desired path and click Next to proceed.
- Choosing Eclipse directory location screen appears to Extend Form. Create a temporary folder “Eclipse” in “C:” or “D:” drive itself. This temporary Eclipse folder acts as a container for “links” folder which Flex Builder Installer places it. It does lot more than that, but as there is no configuration folder.
- Click Next, a window pops up notifying that the folder does not have any eclipse version in it. Click “Proceed with Caution” to proceed.
- Next would be selecting Additional Installations, select whatever needed and click Next.
- The installer takes you to Installation Summary Section, showing all the details. Please make sure you have the things you had chosen before.
- Click Install to begin the Installation process and ends up with installation Wizard Complete screen as below.
- Upon completion, the installation Wizard Complete screen appears, Click Done to complete the installation process.
- Now, open MyEclipse and in Menu navigate to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install
- “Feature Updates” Screen appears
- Check “Search for new features to install” radio button and click Next to continue. “Update sites to visit” page will be appeared on screen.
- Click “New Local Site” to browse the path the Flex Builder Plugin is installed. Under this installation, there would be a directory “com.adobe.flexbuilder.update.site“, select it, click Ok.
- Upon selection of Flex Builder Plugin path. “Edit Local Site” Window appeared again, with url field being filled in, Fill in “Name” field with “Flex Builder” and click Ok.
- “Update Site to visit” screen appears, with a list of plugins. i.e., Flex 3 Builder: [with path information], and list of features available. Select only Flex Builder 3 and click Next.
- Click Next to see “License agreement” window. Read the License Agreement and click Yes to accept and continue.
- Click Finish to complete the plugin installation.
- Upon completion of plugin installation to MyEclipse, the popup appears, prompting the user to restart MyEclipse. Click Yes to restart.
- To create a small Test Flex project and to check plugin installation is proper switch to “Flex Development Perspective“.
- Create a new project “Test”, Click Finish
- Once done, user would see that in Problems window “Error” message popups.
- Move to “design mode“, you would see error there too
- Fix these errors before moving on, for that delete the project.
- This error or problem occurs because MyEclipse or the builder is unable to locate the SDK’s folder. To fix this, go to “Preferences” of “myEclipse.
- Click “Flex > Installed Flex SDKs“. Errors are appearing in the window and show the reason too.
- Select First one of the list, click “Edit“, would end up in “Edit Flex SDK” window. And then browse through and point it to “[Flex Builder Plugin Installation]\sdks\[Version First.. it's 2.0.1], click OK.
- Update Flex SDK Name field with “Flex 2.0.1″ & click Ok to fix the error.
- Repeat for next one in the list, this time select “3.x.x” version under “sdks” folder & name it properly according to version & click Ok. And click Apply & then Ok to accept the changes. And Click on Install All button of the next screen.
- User can download as many SDKs version as he/she wish, install it under “SDKS” version of Flex Builder plugin or which ever location user want, and then just point the SDK by adding new version as mentioned in the previous steps.
- Create new Flex project and test the functionality of builder.
Note: Users switching to new workspaces are required to set the preferences again as mentioned in the above steps.
I hope this article will be useful for the beginers to install the Adobe Flex Builder 3 plugin in MyEclipse, and soon i will be writing article on Creating and deploying Adobe Flex 3 Web application using BlazeDS, Java and Tomcat integrated Server in MyEclipse. You can read my previous Adobe Flex 3 article Data Access with Flex 3
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