Specifications

345ADOBE FLEX 3

Building and Deploying Adobe Flex 3 Applications

Use the web-tier compiler

1 (Windows) Reboot your computer.

2 Start or restart the web server.

3 Copy your MXML file to the web server’s document root. For Apache, the default document root is

Apache_install_dir/htdocs. For IIS, it is IIS_install_dir/wwwroot.

4 Request the MXML file in your web browser. For example:

http://localhost/Main.mxml

The module returns a generated wrapper that embeds the SWF file.

Map the project’s workspace to a virtual path in your web server

1 In Apache, set the Alias directive in the httpd.conf file:

Alias /flex "C:/Documents and Settings/knizia/workspace/MyBasicProject"

Alternatively, you can define your Adobe® Flex® Builder™ project directly under the web root.

2 In Flex Builder, select Run > Run to change the URL to launch in your project. The Run dialog box appears.

3 Under URL or Path to Launch, deselect the Use Defaults option.

4 Enter your request URL in the Debug and Run text boxes. For example:

http://localhost/flex/MyBasicProject.mxml

Flex Builder appends ?debug=true to the URL when it launches the browser. This query string parameter

triggers a compilation with the debug compiler options enabled.

Configuring the web-tier compiler

You configure the web-tier compiler primarily with the following configuration files:

1 compiler.conf — Defines web-tier compiler-specific settings such as the location of the HTML template and

the location of the flex-config.xml file. The compiler.conf file is located in the module_install_dir directory.

This file uses the following syntax:

option_name=value

For example:

template=default.html