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:
- From the Help menu, point to Software Updates and click on Find and Install… This will open up a new dialog
- In this dialog, keep the default selection that is ‘Search for new features to install’ and click Next
- In the next step, Select ‘The Eclipse Project Updates’ checkbox.
Leave the default selection of the other two checkboxes.
Click on the Finish button - After this, the Updates dialog will be shown with all the available updates
- Expands the updates node, Expand the node named ‘Eclipse 3.3.2′ and under this, select the Eclipse Java Development Tools … (aka JDT)
- Click Next
- On the next page accept the terms and click Next
- On the next page change the Installation Directory if you wish and click Finish
- The Update Manager will start the downloading
- After the download, click "Install All"
- 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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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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