Flex Builder 2 and CFEclipse

June 24th, 2006

If you have not tried already, it is possible to have CFEclipse installed into the standalone version of Flex Builder 2.

Instructions for CFEclipse located here.

Start by installing the latest standalone Flex Builder 2, which is based on Eclipse 3.1.2 as of now. Continue by firing up Flex Builder 2 and follow the instructions in the CFEclipse link above or read the quote below.

Installing the Stable Build

The best way to get CFEclipse is to use the built-in installation and update management tools that come with Eclipse. Here’s how:

1. Select the “Help->Software Updates->Find and install” menu option
2. On the screen that is displayed, select ‘Search for new features to install’ and click the ‘Next’ button
3. Now click the ‘New Remote Site’ button
4. Enter a name for the update site, for example “CFEclipse”. In the URL box, enter http://www.cfeclipse.org/update and click the OK button
5. You should now have a ‘CFEclipse’ node in the ‘Sites to include in search’ box. Expand the CFEclipse node and you will see two child nodes: ‘Stable CFEclipse’ and ‘Bleeding Edge CFEclipse’
6. Tick the ‘Stable CFEclipse’ box and click ‘Next’
7. Eclipse will contact the CFEclipse site and retrieve the list of available plugins. Tick the plugin with the highest version number and click ‘Next’
8. The next instructions are self-explanatory, agree to the license, install the software and restart Eclipse
9. Once Eclipse has restarted CFEclipse should have been successfully installed

taken from http://cfeclipse.org/go/project/downloads

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