Specifications

219ADOBE FLEX 3
Building and Deploying Adobe Flex 3 Applications
The following table shows the locations of the Player cache on various platforms:
Using the framework RSLs in Flex Builder
You can use Flex Builder to organize your RSLs and decide which SWC files to use as RSLs and which to use as
statically-linked libraries. You can also use Flex Builder to configure the deployment locations, digests, and other
properties of RSLs. The signed and unsigned framework RSLs have already been created for you and optimized.
All you have to do is compile your application against the RSLs and deploy them to the location that you specified
at compile time.
You can set each SWC file that your project uses to use one of the following linkage types:
• Merged Into Code —Indicates that classes and their dependencies from this library are added to the SWF file
at compile time. They are not loaded at run time. The result is a larger SWF file, but no external dependencies.
This is the default selection for the framework.
• RSL — Indicates that this library will be used as an RSL. When you compile your application, the classes and
their dependencies in this library are externalized, but you compile against them. You must then make them
available as an RSL at run time.
• External — Indicates that this library will be externalized from the application, but it will not be used as an
RSL. This excludes all the definitions in a library from an application but provides compile time link checking.
Typically, only playerglobal.swc has this setting in an application project, but you might also use it to externalize
assets that are used as modules or dynamically-loaded SWF files.
By default, all SWC files in the library path use the same linkage as the framework.
Use the framework.swc file as an RSL in Flex Builder
1 Open your Flex project in Flex Builder.
2 Select the project in the Navigator and select Project > Properties.
3 Select the Flex Build Path option in the resource list at the left. The Flex Build Path dialog box appears.
Platform Location
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\
Windows Vista C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\
Linux /home/user_name/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache/
Mac OSX /Users/user_name/Library/Cache/Adobe/Flash Player/AssetCache/