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Chapter 2: Flex Application Structure

One of your first tasks when developing an Adobe® Flex™ application is to set up your development directory

structure. As part of setting up this directory structure, you must decide how to organize your application assets,

how to share assets across applications, and how to configure the compiler to create your application SWF file.

Topics

Installation directory structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Development directory structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Compiling an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Deployment directory structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Installation directory structure

Before you can begin to set up your application development environment, be familiar with the Flex installation

directory structure for the following products:

• Flex SDK

• Adobe ® Flex® Builder™

Flex SDK installation directory structure

When you install Flex SDK, the installer creates the following directory structure under the installation directory:

Directory Description

/ant Contains the Flex Ant tasks, which provide a convenient way to build your Flex

projects.

/asdoc Contains ASDoc, a command-line tool that you can use to create API language

reference documentation as HTML pages from the classes in your Flex application.

/bin Contains the executable files, such as the mxmlc and compc compilers.

/frameworks Contains configuration files, such as flex-config.xml and default.css.

/frameworks/libs Contains the library SWC files. You use the files to compile your application.

/frameworks/locale Contains the localization resource files.