OSX 10.5 and FlexBuilder 3: You CAN have JVM Goodness(tm)
Over the course of the last 48 hours I’ve been trying to nail down the last few issues in moving to OSX 10.5 64-bit. I’ve run into ColdFusion/Apache 2.2 configuration issues (that’s a whole other blog post), I’ve run into issues that one always runs into when changing systems, and I ran into one file, and potentially excruciating issue that I want to address here. That issue is (in my opinion incorrectly) addressed in Adobe technote kb405284 titled "Flex Builder 3.x not supported with 64 bit Java 1.6 on Mac OS X" wherein Adobe asserts that the only solution to running FlexBuilder 3 on OSX is to revert the JVM to the 32-bit Java 1.5.0 that comes with the computer. This posed a serious dilemma.
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