Any luck with STS 2.3 + Flash Builder 4 plugin?

[azack]

Has anyone had any luck installing the Flash Builder 4 plugin into STS 2.3 (or, I guess eclipse 3.5.1) ? Specifically on OS X, I guess.

The installation of FB4 goes alright, but it doesn't seem to install anything into STS even though I give it STS as the eclipse folder to use.

Just wondering if it works for anyone else and if I should try again.

[jeremyg484]

Yeah, I've gotten it to work, but it does require some minor manual intervention.

The plugin(s) are designed to work by just putting a link in the dropins folder of your Eclipse installation. After the installer completes, you should have something like a "/Applications/Adobe Flash Builder Plug-in Beta 2" folder. From there, look in "/eclipse-host-distro/dropins". The link you need is in there. Copy that link into the dropins folder of your STS install. It should get picked up the next time you start STS.

[azack]

Thanks! I just tried it and it works as expected.

[Jack Punt]

I've tried a couple of times to integrate FB4 plugin with STS-2.3
1: told the FB4 installer about STS; [uninstall/reinastall FB4-plugin]; 2: manually copying the link to the dropin directory

Either way, on starting, STS explodes with a plethora of errors (see attached screen shot)
culminating with a popup informing me: An internal error occurred during: "Creating Adobe Flash Player trust file...".

Looks like missing or conflicting files, but where would Eclispe/STS be looking?

If someone knows more about Eclipse (or FB4) and can suggest a way forward, that will be appreciated.

Both "Flash Builder 4" (standalone) and the Adobe-supplied Ganymede+FB4plugin work.

This on Vista-64, if that matters.

[azack]

I don't know how to help you, but I can say that I've been using STS 2.3 (carbon version) + FB4 plugin every day for a week on Mac OS X 10.6 without any error. So it might very well be Windows or Windows 64 specific.

Here are the specific steps I followed.

1. Download and install SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3 (Carbon version) into /Applications/springsource.
2. Download and install the Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 plugin for Eclipse. When prompted for your Eclipse directory, choose the sts subfolder of the same folder you installed STS into: /Applications/springsource/sts-2.3.0.RELEASE
3. Copy the file /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder Plug-in Beta 2/eclipse-host-distro/dropins/com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.nl1.link to /Applications/springsource/sts-2.3.0.RELEASE/dropins
4. (Optional) If you want to do Flex 3.5 development, Download the Flex 3.5a SDK and install it into /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder Plug-in Beta 2/sdks/3.5a
5. Launch STS
6. (Optional, if you want Flex 3 support) Choose a new workspace for content development, so as to not pollute your other projects with Flash Builder 4 metadata that would make them unopenable in Flex Builder 3.
7. When prompted for a Flash Builder license, you can either use it for a trial or request a Flash 4 license using your current Flex Builder 3 license code.
8. Configure your Flex SDKs in the STS preferences. Optionally, Add your Flex 3.5a sdk to the list and make it the default for projects.
9. Install whatever other plugins you may need (such as subclipse) and restart STS as part of the installation.

[Jack Punt]

Ah, the light is beginning to come through.
The root cause of failure seems to be: "Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no BridgeTalk in java.library.path"

Presumably because BridgeTalk.class looks for native dll, which sits in ...\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.flexide.nativelibs_4 .0.0.253292\os\win32\x86\
This plugin & dll works in the 'standalone' FB4 (where everything is in the plugin directory)
and the adobe-supplied eclipse-host-distro (3.4,Ganymede), where it uses a dropin link;

What is different about STS (3.5) ?
Can someone say how to set java.library.path so STS will find this?
Or other solution?

[JGF]

I gave up on using FB4 with STS and went with the stand alone. Will use Roo with STS as seperate install and IntelliJ for Grails. Way too may glitches.

[JGF]

I've tried doing the Eclipse Galileo 3.5 J2EE (Mac Carbon) install and follow the install from the update manager approach in order to try and get everything to work together.

The first snag I hit was the bookmarks file didn't do a download, but I found the code to manually create the XML file here
http://forum.springsource.org/archiv...p/t-91708.html

Now when I get to the stage where I get to the point 4 d) I get problems with a missing Groovy dependency.
(After it's calculated the requirements & dependencies - you get to the Install Details
I get:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite Grails Support 2.3.2.201003230009-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.grails.feature.group 2.3.2.201003230009-RELEASE)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite Grails Support 2.3.2.201003230009-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.grails.feature.group 2.3.2.201003230009-RELEASE) requires 'org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.feature.feature.group 2.0.0' but it could not be found

PS: I do Grails development too. So I need that...

I'm going to try downloading the Groovy Eclipse plug-in first before doing the STS stuff... Wondering if this will fix the glitch. The PDF needed to include that step maybe.
I Googled in on this:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
So added this and will give that a whirl first...
http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.5/

My goodness this is fragile stuff..
The install of the Groovy Eclipse Plug-in fails...

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed

Artifact org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.jdt,3.5.1.r 351_v20090810-0600-7r88FEoFI0WTo6Az-1qFRHm37ChJ is a folder but the repository is an archive or remote location.
Artifact osgi.bundle,org.junit4,4.5.0.v20090824 is a folder but the repository is an archive or remote location.
session context wasprofile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).

I'm also a bit perplexed at the indication of a 3.5.1 artifact in there too, as I installed the base 3.5 release of Eclipse

[jeremyg484]

Why not just use the STS installer executable? Makes this process much easier. Once you've got a working installation, adding the Flash Builder plugin is done by just copying the proper link into the dropins folder.

I've never tried to install STS from the update manager, so wouldn't know where to begin to help you on that front. The more appropriate place for general STS questions like that is the Spring Development Tools forum:
http://forum.springsource.org/forumdisplay.php?f=32

[JGF]

Why not just use the STS installer executable? Makes this process much easier.

Because the downloadable versions of STS are for newer releases of Eclipse and Flash Builder 4 is too far behind the curve.
According to FB4 download site, I need Eclipse 3.4.2 or 3.5 as a base. (Mac Carbon Plugin)
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/i...=flash_builder
Ganymede SR2 = 3.4.2
Galileo = 3.5

STS site doesn't provide link to go back into archives for appropriate release.

PS: This was the content of that unreachable Bookmark.XML file posted in the other forum

<bookmarks>
<site url="http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e3.5" selected="true" name="SpringSource Update Site for Eclipse 3.5"/>
<site url="http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/composite/e3.5" selected="true" name="SpringSource Update Site for Eclipse 3.5 (Dependencies)"/>
<site url="http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo" selected="true" name="Galileo"/>
</bookmarks>

I think the second site, the (Dependencies) 'composite' link is bogus... Was wondering what the proper links were. As I did spot springsource.com/update/e3.5 in the screenshot for the PDF earlier and wonder if this was a red herring...

I did try the milestone Groovy Eclipse plugin link instead and got past that but then had some Mylyn dependency issue. :-(