Intellij idea supports flex Development

I have been paying attention to Adobe AIR recently and feel that it is more promising than Silverlight in the visible future. Currently, flex3 seems to be the best technology for developing the air program, by accident, infoq wrote an article about the air/flex3 development tool, which is reproduced as follows:

Intellij idea of jetbrains is one of the Java developers' favorite development tools. The recently released intellij idea 7.0.3 contains some new features to support the development of flex applications. Infoq interviewed Ann oreshnikova, jetbrains's marketing director, to learn about how Flex Ria developers should use the new features of initellij and their future plans for flex.

Since Adobe released the eclipse-based flex builder, what is the main goal of jetbrains's Flex feature in intellij idea? Oreshnikova replied:

In fact, we have already provided great code support for Javascript, and we hope to provide such support for ActionScript. For us, it is natural to provide intelligent code editing, Automatic completion, and incorrect highlighting and restructuring for this language.

Major flex features provided by idea:

These are mainly from the advanced editing features provided by idea to support JavaScript encoding. For example:

-Syntax highlighting
-Highlighted errors with quick fixes for the ActionScript and mxml files
-Auxiliary Functions of Code Completion and multiple types of code writing
-Search and use
-Massive refactoring
-Code folding and formatting
-Structured view
-Others

Please visit http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/javascript_editor.htmlto go through these features.

Are these features provided by intllij idea not provided by Flex builder?

To tell you the truth, we didn't spend much time comparing the two features. However, we have reason to believe that the focus on code editing is our outstanding feature. Intellij idea is better than flex builder in terms of code refactoring and real-time analysis.

Oreshnikova explains the lack of a GUI designer and whether it will be added in a later version:

It may be added, but it depends on the needs of our flex users. We maintain close communication with users who use intellij idea. We usually decide the implementation of new features based on their feedback. Therefore, if you have a great demand for the flex graphic designer, we will certainly add it.

Intellij idea has rich debugging and unit testing features for Java. What are the plans for Flex:

We will definitely add it to the plan. In addition, the prototype debugging for Flex is under development, and some of the features are already in the first early access package (early access program build.

For enterprise-oriented RIA development, Adobe has an open-source blaze ds to integrate flex applications. For flex application development, is idea planning to provide such server-side integration?

We have no idea yet, but we will consider this possibility and invest in it.

Oreshnikova said:

Yes, we will support air in idea 8. However, the specific plan is still under discussion.

How about Sun's javafx?

A third-party plug-in that supports javafx already exists. Like the flex GUI designer, we collect representative information from our users to determine whether javafx support is necessary.

Infoq learned that intellij idea 8 plans to add more flex support. According to jetbrains's release plan, this will be launched by the end of this year, probably around late autumn.

Zhang Long, translator.Intellij idea supports flex Development