Adobe Flex 2 is a complete, powerful application development and deployment solution for creating and delivering cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). It enables the creation of personalized, interactive applications that dramatically enhance the user experience, revolutionizing the way people interact with the web.
Another definition: FLEX®, Adobe®'s development solution for rich Internet applications (RIA's), is an open source framework for creating highly interactive and intuitive applications that deploy in an identical manner on most browsers, workstations and operating systems. To communicate between the client workstation and the server, FLEX relies on a protocol called AMF (Action script Messaging Format).
Overview of things to do with Flex, i.e. RIA apps - http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/overview/
Adobe has an "Adobe Air Marketplace" where you can upload your Air apps.
Great documentation here:
- Using Cell Editing Events
- Adobe Livedocs - Using transitions
- Adobe Developer Center - Understanding Flex itemRenders - Part 1: Inline Renderers
- Explanation of MVC Model View Controller - http://www.dehats.com/drupal/?q=node/35
Resources:
- Flex How To's - Flex create and show dialog boxes
- Coding productivity enhancements in Flash Builder 4.5 - link
Other things to check out:
- LiveCycle server data services
- Adobe Open Source for Flex SDK
- Popular links for flash and flex - http://www.dzone.com/links/tag/flash-flex.html
- MMO games with flash and flex
- http://www.electrotank.com/es5.html - server software - Runs actionscript and java server extensions (old link: www.electro-server.com)
- Includes free 25 concurrent user free trial copy
- http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2009/articles/article2/index.html?trackingid=EOCQW - Tips on how to write MMO games in flex
- In addition to ElectroServer 4, some leading server-side choices that support ActionScript 3 include Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 and SmartFoxServer 1.6. If you are interested in creating casual online multi-player games without the headache of hosting your own servers, consider checking out the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service.
- http://www.electrotank.com/es5.html - server software - Runs actionscript and java server extensions (old link: www.electro-server.com)
- http://code.google.com/p/mod-actionscript/ - inactive since 2009, module to allow actionscript to run in webpages.
- Flash-based IDE for actionscript - http://code.google.com/p/minibuilder/
- Adobe AIR - Air Native Extensions
- Flash Game Development - Home
