The document discusses using Maven and Ant for building Flex applications. It describes how Maven can be used to manage dependencies, run unit tests, generate documentation, and perform quality checks. Continuous integration with Hudson is also demonstrated. The document recommends using FlexMojos for building Flex projects with Maven and notes that Maven enforces a common project structure and metadata format.

1. Flex
Continuous
Quality Builds
Flex & (Ant || Maven)
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2. No troll beyond this point
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3. Building
Ant :
FlexAntTasks
Ant : Antennae
• Maven :
• Flex-mojos (conseillé par la Flex Team)
• Alternatives :
• ServeBox (Projet Français)
• and Israfil
FlexMojos V3 est un projet sonatype
Sonatype et Adobe travaillent ensemble pour le support FB dans m2eclipse
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4. Flex Mojos : http://flexmojos.sonatype.org
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5. Managing Dependencies
Maven || (Ant + Ivy)
Demo : http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngormenterprise/site/dependencies.html
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6. Managing Dependencies
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7. (Unit)Test within your Build
FlexUnit within your build
Maven
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8. Automated documentation and reports
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9. Quality control within your build
Quality Reports within your build
AS3NCSS
http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngorm/site/javancss.html
FlexPMD
http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngorm/12/pmdResult/
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10. Detect code anti-patterns : Flex PMD
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11. Continuous Integration
CI : Continuous Quality Builds
Demo : http://localhost:9999/hudson/
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12. Demo Maven
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13. A typical Java flex remoting web app
Discover a « mavenized » Flex BlazeDS Spring project, and its modules :
java_* are plain old maven java projects
flex_* are flex-mojos project
blazeds _service_config is a shared resource handled through maven assembly
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14. Eclipse / m2eclipse / FlexBuilder
• Note that once your project
imported , you may still
• Use your favorite servers and eclipse
plugins wtp facilities
• Debug your application
• On the server side
• On the client side
• Manage your dependencies and maven
build through m2eclipse plugin.
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16. Appendix :
By the way …
What is Maven ?
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17. What is Maven anyway ? (very short definition)
A build tool
•
A dependency management tool • A documentation and quality
reporting tool
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18. What is Maven anyway ? (its architecture)
Plugin
jar
Projects Plugin
Maven Core
to build flex-mojos
Plugin
war
Local machine Remote repository or local install
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19. What is Maven anyway ? (its plug-ins, a few of them…)
• Antlr • Ear • Javancss • Release
• Ant • Eclipse • Jboss • Repository
• AntRun • Ejb • Jcoverage Jdepend • Resources
• AspectJ • Ejb3 • Jdiff • Repository
• Assembly • Exec • Jelly • Sablecc
• Assembly-report • Flex-mojos • Jetty • Site
• Cargo • Flex-annotations • Jpox • Slimdog
• Castor • Groovy • Jspc • Source
• Changelog • Help • Jxr • Surefire
• Changes • Hibernate2 • MAnt • Surefire-report
• Commons-attributes • Idea • Native • Taglist
• Checkstyle • Install • One • Tomcat
• Clean • Issue • Par • Verifier
• Clover • It • Plugin • Xslt
• Csharp • Jalopy • Pmd • War
• Cobertura • Jar • Project-info-reports • Wsdl2java
• Compiler • Javacc • Rar • Xdoclet
• Deploy • Javadoc • Xmlbeans
• XRadar
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20. Flex Mojos : http://flexmojos.sonatype.org
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21. What is Maven anyway ? (a common project format and organization)
Maven is really a process of applying patterns to a build infrastructure
in order to provide a coherent view of software projects.
A Common project metadata format
POM = Project Object Model = pom.xml
Contains metadata about the project
Location of directories, Developers/Contributors, Issue tracking system, Dependencies,
Repositories to use, etc
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22. What is Maven anyway ? (a common project format and organization)
A common directory organization
Our sample of 6 nested projects :
• src/
– main/
• java/
• flex/
• resources/
• webapp/
– test/
• java/
• flex/
• resources/
– site/
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23. What is Maven anyway ? (a common way to build application)
generate-
sources mojo
compile
mojo
test
mojo
package plug-ins
integration-
test
user mojo
install
mojo
e.g. mvn install deploy bindings
Well-known phases
The lifecycle depends on the project type (packaging)
Defined in pom.xml (pom, jar, ear, war, etc)
Ex: <packaging>swc</packaging>
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24. What is Maven anyway ? (it’s even much more)
Artifact repository :
Used to store all kind of artifacts
SWCs, SWFs, JARs, EARs, WARs, EJBs, ZIPs, plugins, …
All project interactions go through the repository
No more relative paths!
Easy to share between teams
Dependency management A
Transitive dependency management
Snapshot handling B C
Multi-module built
D
Environment dependent builds based on profile
Project documentation site and report
Project templating through archetype
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