xavi colomer's blog

If you are aware of the news on the Adobe labs you may know about a new tool called Flex PMD. This tool will help you improving the quality of our code and at the same time you’ll learn about “best practices” developing with Flex. This tool studies the code of an application and generates a XML report which, for better understanding, you’ll see it on any Flex PMD report viewer. You’ll find a list of possible viewers on the FlexPMD webpage.

Inside the downloads site you can access to a violations viewer made for the same labs. I just downloaded the swf for local use.

OSX setup ( once downloaded ):

To install FlexPMD on mac you can do it like this:

1- Working with the terminal, adding the downloaded library to the system path ( or executing it locally ), editing ./profile and following the instructions on the web ( this is How I do it and works pretty fine )

2- Using Automator ( I didn’t try it )

3- Using Ant ( I didn’t try it either )