Category Archives: tools

AS3V For Ant Released

Since I started the development of some other library I completly put AS3V aside because the Eclipse integration with FDT is currently not possible. But since AS3V is working already I decided to release a version really quick that allows you to use AS3V as an Ant Task or simply from command line. I know [...]

AS3V Preview

Here is the first preview of what AS3V looks like in Eclipse. I have written about 30 rules which include cyclomatic complexity checks and unreachable code detection. Most of the time was getting AS3V to link against the asc.jar from the Flex SDK inside Eclipse which is a real nightmare if you ever tried that [...]

The return of AS3V

In September 2008 I started working on a tool called AS3V. The goal of AS3V was to parse source code and to check the code against a set of rules. My main problem with the first attempt of AS3V was that I used ANTLR. ANTLR is a great tool to create a compiler but for [...]

MetaLaunch For Eclipse

Ever wanted to start multiple launchers with one single click in Eclipse? MetaLaunch will solve this issue. Just select the launchers you want to start and then change the order to fit your needs. You can also select to launch those tasks sequential or in a one shot. Unfortunately I have not figured out yet [...]

Windows Eclipse Configuration For FDT

After a lot of trouble with the Eclipse IDE I switched my JVM last night to JRockit and everything seems to be much faster now. If you have a Windows machine and an Intel CPU I can only suggest you to try the same. I do not know if all settings are completly correct but [...]