Adobe Flex Builder Linux - Whats in..

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For developing RIAs on linux, Adobe has already announced its open source Flex SDK on linux by which users can create applications (example in either vi editor etc) and compile using a command-line in the terminal. At Max 2007, Adobe has announced a fruitful product to the linux geeks.. Yes, its Adobe Flex Builder Linux... Its an early alpha release available in Adobe Labs for Download.

So What does it have inside?

 It has a large set of features derived from its Windows release (Flex builder 3 beta..It does not have all the features though!!) Let me walk through some of the major features which are in...Oh yes, that would be a good start point for developing RIAs on linux...

a) Project Creation Wizards (where you can create projects integrated with ASP .Net, J2EE, PHP, Coldfusion)..
b) Code Coloring, Code Hinting, Code Auto Completion, Code Folding..
c) Running applications..
d) Debugging applicatoins with various views like breakpoints, watch variables, stack view...
e) Support to create various Flex File types (MXML Application, MXML Component, MXML Module, CSS File, New Folder, Empty file etc.)
f) Find All References in project, workspace, etc.
g) Outline view which gives a complete tree structure of your code
h) Problems panel which reports compiler errors, warnings etc.
i) Project Properties, Configuring SWC folders, Add Library Projects as references, Build path..
j) Multiple SDK Configuration
k) Import and Export projects
l) Export to release version
m) Create Ajax-Bridge wrappers
n) Find, Replace...
o) Commenting code..
p) Navigating to the declaration (Open definition), Quick outline view, Open Resource...
q) Project Properties, Auto Build on, off, build all, clean project...
and a lot more....

 

What is not in....(with time and as we head towards the release these might get added..)..

a) Design View
b) Web Service Introspection
c) Coldfusion extensions for FB
d) Data Visualization components (not supported by default but you can port the .SWC from valid windows/mac machine on to linux and all will start working...)
e) Data Wizards
f) AIR Support
h) Refactoring
i) States View
j) Flex Profiling

Its supported on three flavors of Linux, RHEL WS 4, SUSE 10, Ubuntu 7.. SUN JRE 1.5 and Eclipse 3.3 is required on the machine. The Installer for flex builder is a plugin to Eclipse 3.3 which also installs debug version of flash player.... Read here for installation and get set go...