Comments on: Adding a Flex Nature to an existent Java (WTP) project

By: Vdakhane

Vdakhane — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:27:07 +0000

thanks for the post.
I have a problem by mistake i added the project nature as flex library project. now i am not getting to change this option as actually i want to configure this as flex project and not flex library. Inputs will be helpful.

By: Mihai Corlan

Mihai Corlan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:07:28 +0000

@Shrikant

Did you try to add a Flex nature to your project? Choose as application server none and it should work. Next you can set the output folder of the Flex project wherever you want (this is the folder where you’ll find the compiled Flex application).

Also, I don’t see why you can’t use a WTP project and leverage the deployment feature of the WTP…

By: Shrikant

Shrikant — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:53:06 +0000

Hi Mihai,

I am having a J2EE project plus Flex project. But my J2EE project uses webservices.
can you please explain me how to keep both the projects in a single project?

I want to compile both the projects and deploy it on Tomcat server.
Please help.

Thanks in advance.

By: Michael D'Souza

Michael D'Souza — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:12 +0000

About to try this for an existing Java EE project. If it works for me, “helpful” will not be able to express my gratitude (since I didn’t write the original Java EE project and copying all the files would be much less desirable).

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:05:56 +0000

A suggestion: there should be a way to add an Apollo nature in addition to the Flex nature. I was able to do this by manually editing the .project file, but that also made some weird things happen.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:43:20 +0000

Very useful feature! I used it to convert an axdt project to a Flex Builder project. You should get them to add it to the help files – I couldn’t find it there.

By: Affan

Affan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:57:26 +0000

just what i was looking for, thanks!

By: mohan

mohan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Simply super…you saved my day

By: Mihai Corlan

Mihai Corlan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:05:22 +0000

@Matthew

Please refer for the documentation for detailed information. On short, you use an ActionScript project when you don’t want to use Flex library (so you don’t have MXML, only ActionScript classes and Flash API).

You use Flex library if you want to create a library of components to be reused in other projects.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:18:17 +0000

Hey…can you explain the other two features…Add Flex Library Project Nature and Add ActionScript Project Nature

By: Mihai Corlan

Mihai Corlan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:55:17 +0000

@Sorin

Right now I don’t see a solution for what you need. But, I am curious why is not OK for you to create Flex and Java Web Project and work on both Java and Flex files from within the same project? This kind of setup it should solve your problem, I think.

By: Sorin cyron

Sorin cyron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:36:18 +0000

Hello

I have a java web project in eclipse that i have deployed to a war file.In the flex project i am using this war file.

I alternatively write code both in eclipse and flex and i must export to war file every time i modify in eclipse.

My question is: is there a method to autodeploy to the war file when i modify the java code in eclipse so that the flex builder will see it?

Thanks in advance

By: Mihai Corlan

Mihai Corlan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:50:28 +0000

This line is also in my config file. If you have some steps to reproduce it you should log a bug here: https://bugs.adobe.com/flex/

I have tested again on my machine and I couldn’t find any issue. But if you manage to resolve the issue you could safely remove that line.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:47:31 +0000

Sorry, it appears you have a filter on opening/closing tags:

wb-resource deploy-path=”/” source-path=”/flex_src”/

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:36 +0000

Open up {your project}/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component and add this line to the mix:

This line seems to be causing the problem in the test project. If you have that line, everytime you save a file your wtp server thinks it needs to republish itself! See if it happens to you? However, in our real project we don’t have anything like this in that file, yet it tries to republish. With BlazeDS, the reload time is painful because it has to recache everything.

By: Mihai Corlan

Mihai Corlan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:11:13 +0000

Hi Brian,

No, this is the first time I’ve heard about this.
I have just tried this scenario:
1. Create a Java (WTP) Flex project with LCDS
2. Starts the Tomcat Server from Eclipse with the project deployed on it
3. Change in the MXML file a tag and Save the file
I couldn’t see any restart of the server

Do you have an easy way to try to reproduce it on my computer or can you post somewhere a project that I can download and try to see if I can reproduce it?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:35:28 +0000

We have used WTP with flexbuilder, however, it has been very bugy for us. For example, when I do a flex build, the tomcat WTP server does an automatic restart, even though no java class files changed. This causes BlazeDS is reload and causes NOP Logging errors for log4j. Have you experienced any of these problems?