IDEAs Deep Flex-Mojos Support
If you are writing Flex applications using IntelliJ IDEA, you should also choose the Flexmojos maven plugin for building (if you build with maven, that is) and not the other alternatives. Why? Well, for once, it seems to be the best plugin around for flex building, but also because IDEA has deep support for it.
Currently, [...]
August 20, 2009
Tags: flex, flex-mojos, IDEA Posted in: Tools 
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Flex-Mojos keepAs3Metadatas Option to Apply keep-as3-metadata Compiler Option
If you use the flex-mojos plugin to compile flex code in a maven project, you might have the need to apply the -compiler.keep-as3-metadata option to the compiler, like I did.
The documentation for compile-swf mojo says to put something like the following, into the configuration element:
<keepAs3Metadatas>
<metadata>Bindable</metadata>
<metadata>Events</metadata>
</keepAs3Metadatas>
but that failed horribly. It [...]
December 29, 2008
Tags: flex, flex-mojos Posted in: Rich Internet Applications No Comments
Israfil or Flex Mojos?
Want to compile flex code with maven? Don’t know which plugin to choose? Maybe this post will help you. Today, there are several available options for compiling flex with maven. On my list, I have these:
flex-mojos
israfil
servebox
Of the three, I have tried only the first two for real. I did take a look into the servebox [...]
July 15, 2008
Tags: flex-mojos, israfil, maven Posted in: Rich Internet Applications 3 Comments
Fast Flex Compilation With Maven: Israfil or Flex-mojos
In this post, I compare performance, measured in time taken to compile flex modules with maven, from two different maven flex plugins, israfil and flex-mojos.
The Contenders
If you compile flex projects from maven, you need a maven flex plugin. Targeting flex 3, there currently exists two plugins:
Flex-mojos
Israfil
The Problem: Time Taken to Compile
One problem with the “mxmlc” [...]
July 15, 2008
Tags: flex, flex-mojos, israfil, maven Posted in: Rich Internet Applications 9 Comments