This is a short-term godsend as far as I am concerned. Many of us updated our Eclipse builds to 3.2 to take advantage of some of the feature enhancements of CFEclipse 1.3, which would only run under 3.2. Because FlexBuilder2 was built using the Eclipse 3.1 platform, you were left with two options; either install and use the supported standalone version without CFEclipse 1.3, or install the FB2 plugin into the Eclipse 3.2 build and use it in an unsupported manner. Since FlexBuilder2 was just released a couple months ago, I opted for the former. This resulted in having to work in two different environments.

Dean's integration work now means you can access CFEclipse functionality while using the standalone FlexBuilder. This is a big deal if you are a ColdFusion developer trying to work with CFCs and remoting.

The updated CFEclipse build can be found here.

Ben Forta mentioned this product on his blog a couple months ago, and I bought it ten minutes later. I am just getting around to watching it, and it is worth every penny of the $150 price tag.

Total Training for Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications is a 8 hour DVD training video hosted by Adobe trainer/evangelist James Talbot, that is really the best video training I have ever experienced. Talbot is very engaging as walks you through multiple lessons that deal with all aspects of Flex development best practices using Adobe's FlexBuilder 2. It's got a nice bookmark feature that will allow you to return to mulitple areas for further review.

A word of caution for ColdFusion developers: while there is plenty of content regarding data access using XML and web services, the examples are platform agnostic. You won't find examples for hooking up to a CF server and pulling data from your MS SQL/MySQL database, for instance.

If you don't have FlexBuilder yet, you can easily download a 30-day evaluation copy.

Highly recommended.

This is slated to be fixed in a future update, but in the meantime the workaround is to right-click on the project and select Properties/Flex Compiler. In the 'Additional compiler arguments:' field you need to add the following text to the end of the line (this assumes you have a default standalone installation of CFMX7):

-services "C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml"

So, assuming your locale is English US, the full line should read:

-locale en_US -services "C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml"

The added arguments are supposedly the only difference between a basic project and a CF remoting project, so to avoid confusion it is probably better to just create a basic Flex project and add the additional CF compiler arguments afterward.