Using Adobe Flex with NetBeans
Right now I can run NetBeans 6.1 and Eclipse Europa side by side for PHP projects. I am attracted to the new NetBeans 6.1 because it has the most superior JavaScript IDE support on the planet—this declaration of superiority includes my very high regard for Visual Studio (watch this video: “Demo of New JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1”). Additionally, NetBeans 6.1 has a thing called Early Access for PHP that I am currently comparing to PHP support in Eclipse. I like the concept of PHP Project “sources” in NetBeans 6.1—this allows me to have project scaffolding in one folder and the actual Web files in another—a cleaner separation than the .project, /.cache and /.settings stuff generated by Eclipse among the Web files.
It should then be natural for me to see how well Adobe Flex development fares in NetBeans 6.1. This nature comes from work documented in “My First Flex 2 Framework.” So here is table of resources exploring this area:
| [NetBeans Ant FAQ](http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansUserFAQ) | Flex (in Elcipse) depends heavily on [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org/). I have not explored how Ant works with NetBeans. |
| [FlexBean (Flex Netbeans plugin)](http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexbean) | “FlexBean is a Netbeans’ plug-in for Netbeans 6.1. It aims to provide a development env to create Flex projects for Netbeans IDE…” this may be the slam dunk. |
| “[Using Flex with Netbeans](http://www.devilsworkbook.com/workbookroot/2006/12/using_flex_with_netbeans.html)” | Paul: “I’m probably in the minority here but I prefer Netbeans over Eclipse. So I’ve been looking for a way to use Flex with Netbeans.” This was written for pre-NetBeans 6.1 development. |
Comments
Arnaud, 2008-07-29 10:04:33
Hello !
I'm very happy to see FlexBean project here !! :) So, now you can create/compile and run (still by hand) a Flex project with FlexBean plugin....
Arnaud.