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Flex Enterprise Services on the Mac
Although there is no release for the mac, the enterprise services run great on OSX. I pulled down the installer for linux, and ran the bin on a linux box. I choose the option to deploy on my own j2ee server.
Once I copied the files back to my mac it was just like any other deployment. I created a new server instance in jrun, copied in my flex.war and samples.war. Renamed them to .zip files and expanded them into my server root. Deleted the zip files and started up my jrun instance.
I was pleased to see the output in terminal telling me that all was well. I thought it was also interesting to note that the trial of FES2 expires on May 1,2006. So we have heard that Q2 this year we will see the final draft of Flex 2, so maybe this is also a clue. At least we should see another release before then :)
31 Jan 2006 Simeon

Hi,
Thanks for the post:)
I was wondering, is there a way to install on the mac without having access to linux, that is a full mac install?
I love flash forms, and I hear how great flex is, but I only have a mac laptop with coldfusion, and no access to other machines.
Thanks,
John
Well you could probably do the same thing with a windows installer, but I am not aware of a way to get the bin to extract on a mac directly. Sorry John.
Hi Simeon,
Thanks for your comment.
My friend just gave me a CD of "Ubuntu", and so I am going to try yo install it on my powerbook:)
John