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Flex Builder and Eclipse 3.5

September 8th, 2009 Rahul Leave a comment Go to comments

Here’s a blog post by a frustrated developer who seems to have found out how to set up the Flex Builder plugin with Eclipse 3.5 (I have tried it and it works!).  Thank you, frustrated developer!

http://worldwizards.blogspot.com/2009/08/eclipse-35-and-flex-builder.html

From the post:

(1) Download and install Eclipse 3.5. I used the J2EE install.
(2) Download and run the Flex Builder 3 installer.
(3) Ignore all the warnings that it only supports Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4. Just keep telling it that you know what you are doing and want to install it anyway. It will end with a scary message about failing and suggest you do a manual install from inside of eclipse. Don’t do that!
(4) Here is the magic, when it is done there will be a file in your eclipse/links directory called
com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.link
Open that file in wordpad and you will see it contains one line:

C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in

Edit that line so it looks like this:

path=C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in

Save the file and start eclipse. Voilla!

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  1. September 26th, 2009 at 06:28 | #1

    That totally did the trick. Thanks a bunch, dude!

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  2. Alex
    October 26th, 2009 at 08:22 | #2

    Thanks a bunch, works perfectly!

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  3. Richard
    October 28th, 2009 at 15:11 | #3

    It works great for me, too. Thanks a bunch.

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  4. kjv007
    November 19th, 2009 at 00:51 | #4

    “path=C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in” – wow, been searching for this for hours! thank you so much.

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  5. Don Jain
    November 20th, 2009 at 15:57 | #5

    You are great. This is eexactly what is needed. Path is missing from that file.

    How did you find it.

    It is really frustating.

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  6. Maisugr
    November 21st, 2009 at 07:24 | #6

    Thanks !!! :) That’s what I needed…

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  7. SDaniel
    January 14th, 2010 at 17:58 | #7

    For me there is a problem. I am in Windows 7 64 bits, my path should be “path=C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in” but after save and run Eclipse I can’t load the Flex workspace… don’t appear. Any suggestion?

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    Ok, for any reason if my Eclipse directory is in C/Program Files don’t work. I move to desktop and now everything is fine. Thank you admin :)

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    I forgot something, eclipse for 64 bits show me an error, but eclipse for 32 is the good way… maybe if I move the eclipse for 32 to C/Program Files I guess that I can load de flex perspective.

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  8. Suryakand
    January 29th, 2010 at 09:01 | #8

    Thanks, it was very helpful for..saved my hours and hours

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  9. February 8th, 2010 at 13:55 | #9

    you basically saved me a half-day of hunting around for a fix :)
    thanks for posting!

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  10. vikas
    February 25th, 2010 at 06:17 | #10

    Thanks Bro!

    Just like to know anything do u have with SVN plug in on the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 that will be gr8!

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  11. Thomas
    March 3rd, 2010 at 04:12 | #11

    Thanks works fine! But isn’t it just poor that the Installer is not able to set the path correctly?

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  12. Edward
    March 8th, 2010 at 19:30 | #12

    Thanks a lot, that’s very helpful.

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  13. Stacey
    March 12th, 2010 at 17:08 | #13

    Wow, that totally did the trick and ended my hours of frustration.

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  14. mohan
    April 7th, 2010 at 06:25 | #14

    i downloaded eclipse 3.5 zipped file in that i didn’t find any link file …plz tell me what to do

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  15. Shahram
    June 16th, 2010 at 08:34 | #15

    The only thing I can say, I love you Dude….

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