FlexBuilder3 with Aptana/Eclipse 3.4.1 “Ganymede”

by devarni on 22 February 2009, under IDEs & Development Tools

FlexBuilder3 is based on Eclipse 3.3.1 and doesn’t work unfortunately with Eclipse 3.4.1 “Ganymede”.
But Eclipse “Ganymede” has a feature for easy integration of plugins called “dropins”, therefore under Eclipse 3.4.1 exist a “dropin” folder…

Close Eclipse and copy the complete Flexbuilder folder (standalone or plugin) inside this “dropin” folder. Restart Eclipse and now you should have the complete Flexbuilder envoirenment available!
Flexbuilder can be found with the default installation path at C :\Program Files\Adobe.

:3.4.1, Aptana, Eclipse, Ganymede

3 Comments for this entry

tigers
14 January 2010 on 9:15 AM
Any idea if this technique will work with Galileo?
devarni
14 January 2010 on 10:11 AM
Yes, it works.
Tested with Flexbuilder 3.0.2 (plug-in version) and Eclipse 3.5.1

Btw. You can also try Flash Builder 4 Beta2 (the new name of the upcoming Flexbuilder 4 release for the first half of 2010).
tigers
14 January 2010 on 9:55 PM
Works a treat! Had to tweak a couple of debug settings that didn’t transfer across (was targetting wrong version of Flash Player) but apart from that it does what it says on the tin.

Thanks.