Developing flex apps that use blazeds with flexbuilder and eclipse

Hi all,
Im new to Flex. I'm trying to setup my development environment. What I've noticed is that when blazeds is started and I run a flex project, it creates a folder in the blazeds root folder named $ProjectName-debug (replace $ProjectName with the actual project name). Once this folder is created, and the flash page is accessed, it cannot be deleted until blazeds is actually stopped. The files on that folder seem to be locked. While this folder is locked, eclipse cannot seem to re-build the project (specifically clean). Thus every small change I make to the project, I'm currently having to stop blazeds, clean the flex project, start blazeds, run the flex project.What makes things worse is that I have to start our application along with blazeds so it can retrieve the data from the app (which takes a few minutes).
I'm wondering if other people are having to go through this pain or if they've figured out a way to get around this. I would ideally like to have a way where I'm able to rebuild the project and hit f5 and reload the page and see the changes. I understand this is not possible with debug.
If anyone has figured out a way to incorporate blazeds to their development environment in a more practical way, please let me know. We just switched from tapestry/gwt to flex. We used to be able to update on the go thus development was much simpler.
Regards,
Udam

Hi Udam. I don't seem to have that problem. I'm using the FlashBuilder 4 (formerly FlexBuilder) beta so maybe it is a bug in the version of FlexBuilder you are using, although it could also be something else in your environment.
When I clean the project in FlashBuilder 4 it deletes all the assets from the $ProjectName-debug directory and then rebuilds the project. It doesn't attempt to delete the $ProjectName-debug directory itself.
If you are not using the FlashBuilder 4 beta I would try using that and see if it resolves the problem for you. If that fixes things then you know it is an issue with the version of FlexBuilder you are using.
If that doesn't do it, it could be an issue with the application server you are using or maybe something else in your environment.
If you still have problems after trying this with FlashBuilder 4 please reply back with as much information about your environment as you can such as what application server you are using, what OS you have, what browser you are testing with, if you have FlexBuilder and BlazeDS running on the same machine or separate machines, etc.
Thanks.
-Alex

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