http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf5f9ca-7ffe.htmlConfiguration filesYou must be familiar with the ways to configure your development
environment. Adobe Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) primarily
provide XML files that you use to configure the settings. The flex-config.xml
file defines the default compiler options for the compilers.
In addition to server and compiler configuration settings, you
can also modify the messaging and data management settings, the
JVM heap size, Adobe® Flash® Player
settings, and logging and caching settings.
For more information about configuring your Flex SDK environment,
see SDK configuration.
CompilersFlex includes
application compilers and component compilers. You use the application
compilers to compile SWF files from MXML and other source files.
You use the component compilers to compile SWC files from component
files. You can then use SWC files as dynamic or static libraries
with your Flex applications.
The application compilers take the following forms:
Adobe® Flash™ Builder™ project compiler. The Flash Builder application compiler
is opened by Flash Builder for Flex Projects and ActionScript Projects.
mxmlc command-line compiler. You launch the mxlmc compiler
from the command line to create a SWF file that you then deploy
to a website.
fcsh compiler shell. Provides an optimized environment for
using the mxmlc command-line compiler. For more information, see Using fcsh, the Flex compiler shell.
The component compilers take the following forms:
Flash Builder library project compiler. The Flash Builder
component compiler is opened by Flash Builder for Flex library projects.
compc command-line compiler. You open the compc compiler
from the command line to create SWC files. You can use these SWC
files as static component libraries, themes, or runtime shared libraries
(RSLs).
For information on using the compilers, see Flex compilers.
DebuggerTo test
your applications, you run the application SWF files in a web browser
or the stand-alone Flash Player. If you encounter errors in your
applications, you can use the debugging tools to set and manage
breakpoints in your code; control application execution by suspending,
resuming, and terminating the application; step into and over the
code statements; select critical variables to watch; evaluate watch
expressions while the application is running; and so on.
Flex provides the following debugging tools:
- Flash Builder debugger
- The Flash Builder Debugging perspective provides all of the
debugging tools you expect from a robust, full-featured development
tool. You can set and manage breakpoints; control application execution
by suspending, resuming, and terminating the application; step into
and over the code; watch variables; evaluate expressions; and so
on. For more information, see Debugging, testing,
and monitoring applications.
- The fdb command-line debugger
- The fdb command-line debugger provides a command-line interface
to the debugging experience. With fdb, you can step into code, add
breakpoints, check variables, and perform many of the same tasks
you can with the Flash Builder visual debugger. For more information,
see Command-line debugger.
- AIR Debug Launcher (ADL)
- ADL is a command line debugger for Adobe® AIR™ applications that you can use outside of
Flash Builder.
LoggersYou can log messages at several different points in a Flex
application’s life cycle. You can log messages when you compile
the application, when you deploy it to a web application server,
or when a client runs it. You can log messages on the server or
on the client. These messages are useful for informational, diagnostic,
and debugging activities.
Flex includes the
following logging mechanisms that you use when working with Flex
applications.
- Client-side logging
- When you use the debugger version of Flash Player or start your
AIR application using AIR Debug Launcher, you can use the trace() global method
to write out messages or configure a TraceTarget to
customize log levels of applications for data services-based applications.
For more information, see Client-side logging and debugging.
- Compiler logging
- When compiling your Flex applications from the command line and
in Flash Builder, you can view deprecation and warning messages,
and sources of fatal errors. For more information, see Compiler logging.
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