Background

Adobe FlexBuilder is a set of plug-ins built on the Eclipse Platform which offers development tools around the Flex framework.

While Adobe freed the Flex SDK, including libraries and compiler, the IDE is still, at the time of writing this article, commercial.

For some reason, Adobe does not currently offer any FlexBuilder update which would allow us to install the tools as a plug-in under the Eclipse 3.3 platform in the appropriate way with the FlexBuilder installer.

This article will show you how to install FlexBuilder 2 under Eclipse Europa in a quite clean way, so that all the new features and bug fixes of Eclipse will be available to you.

A glance on what is new in Eclipse Europa Simultaneous Release:

• New and noteworthy for Platform, JDT and PDE
• New and noteworthy for WTP
• New and noteworthy for Mylyn