Adobe Flex Development on Ubuntu...

Question

I'm thinking the following:

• Netbeans + FlexBeans
• Maven + FlexMojos

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However:

• FlexBeans just doesn't compare with FlexBuilder
• Not sure FlexMojos supports Flex 4

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How do you guys manage to develop Flex apps on Ubuntu?

I personally prefer Netbeans to Eclipse. Netbeans has very good Maven project support. So I am thinking of:

• "Extending" FlexMojos to work with Flex 4
• Forking or developing from scratch a good Flex plugin for Netbeans\

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Adobe is working on a Linux version of Flex Builder.

SapphireSteel has a plugin for Visual Studio called Amethyst

Ensemble has another one called Tofino

Answer 2

Give a go to FDT, they've just added MXML support. It's not cheap by any means, but worth trying.

Cheers, J

Answer 3

However:

* Not sure FlexMojos supports Flex 4

http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/

Answer 4

I develop Flex apps that run on Linux. I run VMWare on Centos and run Vista on that and have FlexBuilder installed in the virtual machine. It works pretty well since I found the Linux FlexBuilder to be very buggy and I can still use Linux for everything else.

Answer 5

I've been developing with Flex on Ubuntu for the last 6 months with IntelliJ IDEA 9.

Besides many interesting features (that Flex Builder 3 does not have), the editor supports Maven and FlexMojos nicely. You can actually just import your poms directly into IDEA and it will create all configurations for you. This is also interesting if you are using a build server that uses Maven so you don't have to maintain multiple build configurations.

• IntelliJ IDEA: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• FlexMojos: http://code.google.com/p/flex-mojos/

Answer 6

There is an unsanctioned project to get Flash Builder 4 to run on Linux. I have tried it out and it works very well. The only real missing feature is design mode.

http://code.google.com/p/fb4linux/