(2-15 minutes depending on
connection speed)
Objective
Installing Flex productivity
plug-ins for Eclipse:
·
Flex2Ant
·
Flex2Doc
·
Log4Flex
·
DaoFlex
·
FlexBI
Pre-requisites
- You should be running Eclipse 3.2 or higher. Our
plug-ins will not work with Eclipse 3.1
- You should be running Flex Builder as plug-in to
Eclipse. If you have installed standalone Flex Builder (Adobe-branded Eclipse), please uninstall it, and then,
re-install FlexBuilder as plug-in to regular, i.e. Java-enabled
Eclipse.
- You should have Java SDK 1.5 or higher
installed. You won’t have to use it, but our plug-ins will need it to
function properly.
Detailed Instructions
The preferred way to install Eclipse
plug-ins is via Install/Update feature of Eclipse. Eclipse attempts to download
plug-ins from the specified URL and you can even configure Eclipse to perform
automatic updates of these plug-ins, when the corresponding downloads are available.
Please note that if you are behind
the firewall, you would need to explicitly configure proxy connection in Eclipse to enable automatic downloads. If
you are unable to configure Eclipse for automatic downloads you may still use
Install/Update feature, but you would have to perform the downloading outside of
Eclipse.
How to Install All
Farata Productivity Plug-ins with Automatic Download via Eclipse
- In Eclipse, navigate to Help->Software Updates ->
Find and Install…:
- In the “Install/Update” Dialog click Next:
- In the “Install” dialog, click New Remote Site. At the prompt name the new site as - for
instance - “myflex.org”. Use the following URL:
http://mantis.faratasystems.com/downloads/update/site.xml
Click
OK to complete registration of the
new remote site . Click Finish to close the Install
dialog.
- The “Updates” dialog will show up. Check “myflex.org”
and click OK:
- Install Wizard will change to Feature
License state. Click Accept
and, then, Next:
- Install Wizard will change to Installation state. Click
Finish.
- You will be prompted with Verification dialog. Click InstallAll.
- You will be asked to restart Eclipse. Please do so. Installation of the plug-in is complete at this point.
How to Enable Eclipse
Install/Update Mechanism to Work From Behind the Firewall
- If your computer is behind the firewall you won’t be able to use Install/Update as indicated in steps 1-8, unless you tell Eclipse to use proxy connection while performing Install/Update. To configure Eclipse for using proxy connection during Install/Update, please go to Window->Preferences and enter the IP address and port of your proxy:
- You may be able to find your proxy by looking up the settings of your browser. Here is where you may find the proxy settings of your Internet Explorer:
- Here is how your can lookup settings of your proxy in FireFox:
How to Download the
Plug-ins Manually
If you are not able to detect your proxy settings and they can not be provided to you by your system administrator for security reasons, you have to resort to the manual download of the plug-ins. Once a plug-in ZIP file is downloaded to your local drive, you can install it by following Steps 3-8, except that instead of Remote Site in Step3 you should use Local Site.
- To
download plug-ins, please use the following URL:
http://myflex.org/plugins/index.jsp
You may selectively install one or
more plug-ins, but YOU MUST HAVE CORE PLUGIN – com.farata.flex - INSTALLED.
Other Farata productivity plug-ins will not work without this plug-in
installed.
How to Apply the License(s) File(s)
Farata Plugins require that you license their use. You can obtain the license by visting http://www.myflex.org, MyAccount page. The license will be sent to you via e-mail.
- To apply the license to the plugin, go to Window->Preferencese->License Management dialog as shown below. Use the license file sent to you to “Install License”
