FlexPMD

Posted by cornel | Filed under Events, Flex

Yesterday Adobe Technical Services launched FlexPMD – a tool to audit  ActionScript source code and detect common problems (anti patterns, unused code, badly written Flex components ). The tool started as an internal project in Adobe and now it has been made open source.

I can say that using this tool is a must for any complex Flex projects, because it enables you to detect common problems at an early phase. For the moment it can be invoked from Maven/Ant and Mac OS X automator, in the future it will probaby also be available as a Flash Builder plugin.

Permalink | Comments (4) | Sep 2, 2009

4 Responses to “FlexPMD”

  1. Daniel Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Cornel, I suggest you write an article about how to set up and build a Flex project with Maven. I know some people that will be very interested.

  2. Philip Wilder Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    I expect this link (http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/flex-dev.html) might already explain the basics.

    I’m afraid I can’t confirm its completeness as I fought to setup our project with a different plugin (http://maven.servebox.org/sites/maven-flex-plugin/flex-plugin/) with less documentation.

  3. Dragos D. Says:
    September 16th, 2009 at 6:22 am

    Daniel, if you want to know how to setup your computer to build a Flex project with Maven, you can check this link: http://www.flexthinker.com/2009/08/setup-for-automating-flex-builds-with-maven/

  4. Alfred Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Nice. I was just looking for a flex code audit tool.

    How are you, mister Creanga?

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