Flex Builder 2 – Ant support

If you’re running Flex Builder 2 as a standalone application you might have noticed, as Mike Britton did, that it does not have Ant support out of the box.

To get Apache Ant support in Flex Builder 2 standalone, you can follow along with the following step by step instructions (click screenshots to see full size).

Launch Flex Builder 2
Go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install
Search for new features to install, click next

Select “Eclipse.org update site”, click finish

Select “Eclipse Java Development Tools”, click next

Accept the license agreement, click next

Click finish to start download

Eclipse downloads Java Development Tools

Click “Install all” to install Java Development Tools

Restart the Eclipse workbench

That’s it! You now have Apache Ant support in your standalone Flex Builder 2 install. If you want to get started using it check out the following ASDoc build script by Dave Williamson.

http://blog.bittube.com/2006/08/15/ant-buildxml-for-asdocs-generation/