Adobe Flex Development on Ubuntu

Question

I'm thinking the following:

• Netbeans + FlexBeans
• Maven + FlexMojos

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However:

• FlexBeans just doesn't compare with FlexBuilder
• Not sure FlexMojos supports Flex 4

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How do you guys manage to develop Flex apps on Ubuntu?

I personally prefer Netbeans to Eclipse. Netbeans has very good Maven project support. So I am thinking of:

• "Extending" FlexMojos to work with Flex 4
• Forking or developing from scratch a good Flex plugin for Netbeans\

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I've been developing with Flex on Ubuntu for the last 6 months with IntelliJ IDEA 9.

Besides many interesting features (that Flex Builder 3 does not have), the editor supports Maven and FlexMojos nicely. You can actually just import your poms directly into IDEA and it will create all configurations for you. This is also interesting if you are using a build server that uses Maven so you don't have to maintain multiple build configurations.

• IntelliJ IDEA: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• FlexMojos: http://code.google.com/p/flex-mojos/