SourceMate is a really cool plug-in that can be used in Flex/Flash Builder. SourceMate provides some really useful functionality that isn’t included by default with Flash Builder.

I’ve been using SourceMate for a little while and there are some really powerful, time saving features. There are some handy functions like comment/uncomment all for classes. This is a good time saver. There are some really powerful refactoring tools and also the ability to create ActionScript and MXML code templates.

The plug-in is available in Flash Builder as a top level menu and also provides other integration points in the right click menu and other areas. Some cool features are: the ability to generate getter/setters for class properties, generate toString methods, change method signature, convert local variable to field (class property), extract method/interface/constant/local variable, override implement methods, and more!

SourceMate provides the ability to generate Ant build scripts and also generate and build ASDoc.

Flash Builder is great on its own but SourceMate adds some really great, time saving functionality. I’m still exploring it and have yet to really become a power user, there’s still a TON of stuff that I plan on rolling into my Flex development workflow.

You can get a free 30 day demo and the price is more than reasonable for the power that you get.

I highly recommend stopping by the Element River site, downloading the trial, checking out some of their screenshots and videos and giving SourceMate a try. Five stars!!!