Comments on: Reconnecting Flex Builder Plug-in To Eclipse

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:28:59 +0000

Thank you so much! I was trying to get Flex Builder to run with PDT and all I could find were all-in-one downloads, so this did just the trick. Plus it allowed me to start anew with my Eclipse install… as messy as my last one got it was a nice refresher. Again, thank you for all your digging.

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:41:48 +0000

Hi Smin, the Flex SDK is opensource so you can download it for free (http://opensource.adobe.com)

By: Smin Rana

Smin Rana — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:17:57 +0000

Hi is there any Flex SDK 4 plugin (Free) for classic Eclipse

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:59:51 +0000

Thanks Levan, Sean Corfield also posted that solution.

By: Levan

Levan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:53:51 +0000

There is a simpler way to add flexbuilder to existing eclipse, it takes 5 minutes
from within Eclipse click help -> software updates -> Manage Configuration

3. Click Add an Extension Location and select (flex_builder_install_location/eclipse.

restart eclipse

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:08 +0000

Luigi, if I recall correctly Flex Builder isn’t compatible with Eclipse 3.5, some have got it to run, I’ve not had much success – I get a lot of errors similar to yours.

By: Luigi Rizzo

Luigi Rizzo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:36:10 +0000

Hi,
I’m trying to setup my new Eclipse Galileo (3.5) using the Sean’s method but I got this error:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
To: com.adobe.flexbuilder.debug.e32 [3.0.214193]
From: Adobe Flex Builder Core Feature 3.0.214193 (com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.feature.group 3.0.214193)
Missing requirement: Flex Debug Plug-in for Eclipse 3.2 3.0.214193 (com.adobe.flexbuilder.debug.e32 3.0.214193) requires ‘bundle org.eclipse.debug.ui [3.2.0,3.3.0)’ but it could not be found

What’s wrong?
It seems that the new package
org.eclipse.debug.ui_3.5.0.v20090603
isn’t backward compatible with the oldest 3.2.0, 3.3.0
Thanks in advance

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:54:20 +0000

@Tom, please see Sean’s comment above. It appears there is a really simple solution to reconnecting the plugin as Sean indicates, so this should work on version 3.3 as well as 3.4 and beyond.

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:50:59 +0000

@Sean, haha I’d never tried that until you mentioned it :p. Works a treat, I assumed it was to do with updating the plugin itself and not the eclipse installation it was associated with.

Thanks for that – I’ll add an update to the post :D

By: Sean Corfield

Sean Corfield — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:44:17 +0000

I’m curious as to why you uninstall FB from your old Eclipse before installing it in the new one?

Once you have an install of FB, you can add it as a local update site to any new Eclipse install.

In Software Updates, add a local site pointing to:

/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/com.adobe.flexbuilder.update.site

Then just install the plugin using Eclipse’s software update process. This is pretty quick.

For Eclipse updates, it’s pretty quick to disable the plugin via the Software Updates > Installed Software dialog and then reinstall it as a local site after the update finishes. That’s certainly easier than messing around copying files manually.