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?

[Jack Punt]

Oh, I get it now!

Adobe installs/uses its own (32bit) jre.
So the 32bit.dll works for them.
But using a 64bit jre, all is lost...
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-26041

[tvpavan]

I too see the same error . STS 2.3.3M1 + FB4 plugin. The standalone FB4 works fine.

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no BridgeTalk in java.library.path

Additionally i see
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/adobe/flexbuilder/util/PluginProperties

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/adobe/flexide/editorcore/document/IFlexDocument

etc in the STS eclipse log.

Is there a way out for this ??!!

[jeremyg484]

I'm using it on Mac with no issues. Are you using the 64bit version? As pointed out by Jack, I don't believe that combo works.

[tvpavan]

yes. i was using a cocoa-64bit. Now its fine.. Thanks for the info