Eclipse 3.2.2, Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10.3, Adobe Flex Builder 3
Just wanted to post a note about using Eclipse 3.2.2 for a IDE platform with the Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10.3 and Adobe Flex Builder 3 plug-ins installed. Long story short, it seems to work just fine.
I have been doing a bit of WebLogic work lately to keep up with the Oracle SOA roadmap. Part of that work includes some code development. Long term this work will be done in JDeveloper, but for now must be done in workbench. Workbench for WebLogic 10.3 runs on the Eclipse platform either as a simple install or via a plug-in to an existing Eclipse install.
I decided to use the Eclipse plug-in installation since it would allow me to also have my Adobe Flex Builder 3 run in the same eclipse instance. This is a real nice capability for me. I use the Flex Builder plug-in to build by RIA application and then elements of the workbench plug-in to write the data side of the application. Lately on the data side I have been using WebLogic web services to provide data to Flex remote objects via BlazeDS. I am trying to decide if I want to use remote objects for all of Flex data sources or just for the "data pusha?? parts. Currently I am not sure if that is easier than using direct web service calls where the biggest pain is getting the namespaces handled correctly.
From the workbench plug-in perspective the install was only slightly painful. I used the network installer with a freshly installed Eclipse 3.2.2 IDE for Java EE Developers. When I tried the install I ran into a bunch of pre-requisites that I did not see in the installation documentation. All of those pre-requisites stem from requiring the WTP 2.0.3 feature to be installed in Eclipse. Fortunately the web page for the WTP 2.0.3 release has details and links for everything you need.








