This is a follow up from the Complete Starter guide. You may want to read that first if you are new to Eclipse and FDT. The aim of this article is to provide some helpful insights when developing Flash websites using the Eclipse platform with the FDT plug-in. The focus will be more on the platform and how FDT offers certain features that you as an Actionscripter just can't live without. The Eclipse IDE is full of very useful built-in features. All of which is available to use. This article relies on the default shortcut keys when FDT is installed.

FWK is a Flash project wizard for Eclipse 3.x. This plug-in is used to improve work-flow for creating projects quickly and efficiently by minimizing the effort of setting up. By using XML templates all created stub files and folders are fully customizable to suit your individual needs.