Ok ... so I have followed this path all day now and I sort of feel like walking 
into a dark and spooky forrest the longer I go ;-)

Simply switching the compiler artifact will probably not do the trick. Even if 
for FlashBuilder falcon seems to be a drop-in-replacement, for Flexmojos it's 
not. A lot of internal clases have been used by Velo in the inner workings of 
Flexmojos. For example in order to trigger a compile he calls the static 
"mxmlc" method inside the flex2.tools.Mxmlc class. So how does flashbuilder do 
this? Does it check the MANIFEST.MF file in a jar called compc.jar and 
mxmlc.jar to know which classes it should use? Having a look at the 
flex-compiler-oem jar sort of seems that it's quite tightly coupled to the old 
packages and Classes. 

So how does the FlashBuilder do it? I would like to do it the same way for 
Flexmojos.

Chris

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Von: Christofer Dutz [mailto:christofer.d...@c-ware.de] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014 21:33
An: 'dev@flex.apache.org'
Betreff: Flexmojos using Falcon

Hi,

so my changes to the falcon build script were actually quite simple. Now I have 
an artifact "org.apache.flex.compiler:falcon-compiler:0.0.2-SNAPSHOT in my 
local repo which pulls in all dependencies of the compiler using maven (Yes ... 
it's only one jar we seem to have to provide).

Now I'm doing my first steps with Flexmojos using Falcon and I noticed 
something that I have to change:
Till now Flexmojos always referenced a default compiler version. So if you 
didn't provide an explicit version, it used the one Flexmojos was built 
against. Now starting with falcon we have different compiler artifacts and here 
the simple "version overriding" of maven no longer works. So I was thinking 
about setting that dependency to "provided", so the user has to provide a 
compiler artifact. The downside is that you have to provide something you 
didn't have to earlier. The good thing is that this way you can choose your 
compiler artifact. Eventually I might even be able to bring back together the 
Adobe and Apache versions of flex so Flexmojos could build both worlds (but 
that would be a goodie, that I'll experiment on as soon as Falcon is working).

So keep your fingers crossed that we will be able to build flex applications 
with falcon using flexmojos. If we get the build script running on the Apache 
jenkins we could even get "4.14.0-SNAPSHOT" sdks out the door automatically, 
which would make bleeding-edge experimenting a lot easier :)

Chris

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