Plugin Installation

The beta plugin can be installed from within Flex Builder using the Eclipse Software Updates as follows:

  1. Select Help >Software Updates > Find and Install…
  2. Leave “Search for new features to install” selected and click Next
  3. Click New Remote Site… and enter http://www.idefactory.com/update in the URL and Enterprise IDE as name
  4. Click Finish with the Enterprise IDE remote site selected
In case of firewall issues with the update the plugin can also be installed manually as follows:

  1. Download update_site.zip from http://www.idefactory.com/downloads/update_site.zip
  2. Unzip the contents of update_size.zip to your eclipse folder
In case of manual installation you may need to start Flex Builder with the -clean parameter to load the plugin correctly.

The use of the plugin increases the memory requirements for Flex Builder. It is recommended the memory settings for Flex Builder are increased. To do so use the following suggested settings:

Command line: eclipse -vmargs -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

Eclipse.ini : The file will be in the eclipse folder. In Mac OS X, right click on Eclipse package and choose "Show package content", the will be inside the Mac OS folder. Each of the following arguments has to be on a seperate line: