I have a Flex 3 application that talks to BlazeDS services running in Tomcat, and it's not had a great deal of work done on it lately.
As I'm picking it up again, I'm migrating to Flash Builder 4 and SDK 4.5.1, while still using the Halo theme, but I am migrating tests
to use Junit4. All seems to be going OK so far, and I have a build that runs successfully in a browser.
For development, I run a local Tomcat, and I used to debug from Flex Builder 3 in Firefox. However, I can't work out how to do
the same thing in Flash Builder 4. I've made associations between the .swf file type and Firefox, both in the OS X finder and in
Flash Builder, but when I launch the application (run or debug) it resolutely opens in Flash Player debugger.
For many applications that would be fine, but I get the Duplicate HTTP Session error because Flash Player doesn't support Session Cookies,
so debugging in Flash Player is useless.
Are there any simple fixes for this? I have managed to work round it by creating a debug configuration that opens a blank page
and then open the SWF in Firefox and connect it to the waiting debugger, but it's really annoying to have to do that, especially if
you're a bit slow and miss the debugger timeout.
Cheers,
-Chrisl