Adding the ANT support in Flex Builder 3

If you are working on Flex Builder 3 and you want to have the Apache ANT support in your flex builder 3, then do the following:

  1. From the Help menu, point to Software Updates and click on Find and Install… This will open up a new dialog
  2. In this dialog, keep the default selection that is ‘Search for new features to install’ and click Next

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  3. In the next step, Select ‘The Eclipse Project Updates’ checkbox.
    Leave the default selection of the other two checkboxes.
    Click on the Finish button

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  4. After this, the Updates dialog will be shown with all the available updates

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  5. Expands the updates node, Expand the node named ‘Eclipse 3.3.2′ and under this, select the Eclipse Java Development Tools … (aka JDT)

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  6. Click Next
  7. On the next page accept the terms and click Next
  8. On the next page change the Installation Directory if you wish and click Finish
  9. The Update Manager will start the downloading

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  10. After the download, click "Install All"
  11. Restart Flex Builder

Now you can see the Ant view in the flex builder. Open this view from the Windows menu -> Other Views… and select Ant under the Ant folder

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Thanks for the explanation

Very good post. Thanks for the help!!

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I had to choose the ‘Java Development Tools’ option when in Figure 5 above - vs. the JDT option as shown and that did the trick.

Thanks!

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