Alfresco from Binary

[mechaviper]

I am customizing an alfresco that was installed using binary. Most of the guides in development make use of Maven with Eclipse, is there any way I can
Import the Binary Installed Alfresco into Eclipse? or is are there guides out there that just tell the location of the files to edit in alfresco. I am trying to create a custom action but all of the guides I see make use of Eclipse

[gawadesk]

Hello,

Generally we should deploy our customization in Alfresco by using AMP which we can generate by Maven and Eclipse.

It's not good practice to do changes in deployed Alfresco as it will be difficult for upgrade. However if you still wish to do changes in deployed Alfresco then you have to follow extension mechanism. So all your changes will go to $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension folder and it will be separate from your deployed Alfresco which make easy for you future upgrade.

Thanks,
Krishna