Flex eclipse plugin isn't it free?

Question

Eclipse is free , flex sdk is free. Is not the eclipse plugin for flex free?

Salangi

Answer 1

No, it is not free.

There are some free options for development, however:

• Command-line and editor of choice
• FlashDevelop
• Tofino (Visual Studio plugin, if you already have that)

Kinetics

Answer 2

I guess you mean Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder).

It is an Eclipse-based IDE, so I guess you can call it an Eclipse plugin, but it is not free.

You can however get a free license for it if you are unemployed or student, or using it for academic purposes.

Check http://www.adobe.com/devnet-archive/flex/free/ out to know more about this offer.

Homopterous

i thought flex builder and flex eclipse plugin were two different things ? – Salangi

@user No, there is Flash Builder and that's it. Flex Builder is the old name. – Homopterous

Answer 3

There a two flavors of Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder). The Flash Builder plugin for eclipse and the Flash Builder stand-alone (build upon eclipse). Both are part of the commercial license.

Beside the commercial Flash Builder plugin there exist many other commercial plugins for eclipse. Nothing confusing about that.

Englut

I am not quite agreeing with you. There is basically no difference between the plugin and the stand-alone: the stand-alone is just the plugin running on a separate Eclipse provided at the installation. – Homopterous

Answer 4

There seems to be some confusion here if I'm understanding correctly.

There is a free flex plug-in avilable for eclipse. Flex has been an open-source project and the SDK available as a stand-alone plug-in for the eclipse IDE for free; yes for free, for several years now. For obvious reasons it isn't widely promoted, but it is available. Here is a link explaining the free flex 4 SDK for Eclipse.

Free flex SDK explaination

Eden

Your link is not related to your answer. If it is available, why won't you post a proper link? – Doorsill