“Java Space Error” Fix for Flex Developers

I thought I had to write this, at least for my benefit, but for others as well, who are trying to scour the internet to find the solution to this. The problem is, when using ANT and MXMLC, to compile your Flex projects, you get a “java heap space” error, similar to: [mxmlc] Error: Java heap space  1 [mxmlc] Error: Java heap space  [mxmlc] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 1 [mxmlc]...

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How to work with FlexPMD

FlexPMD is one of those open-source projects in the thriving community that is Flex, that I find to be quite useful, especially for the enterprise world. Essentially, this tool, which could either be an eclipse-plugin, embedded within ant or through other third-party tools, is an auditor that aims to improve code-quality, traversing your ActionScript/Flex directories and spots out bad-practice code, with the ability to add your own custom rules. It’s sister tool which also comes in the package, FlexCPD, detects copy/paste code which might seem ‘suspect’ utilising...

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