Adobe Flex
Formerly known as Adobe Flex, Apache Flex is a set of software tools and libraries for the development and deployment of Flash-based, cross-platform RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). The user interfaces are created using MXML - an XML based markup language
The tools form an SDK which is available from Adobe for free.
Advantages
- More suitable than Flash to create UI applications
- Supports stateful applications
- Does not require deployment (it creates live applications)
Disadvantages
- No local file access is supported
- Lower performance when dealing with many data records
Components
- LiveCycle Data Services
- BlazeDS
- ColdFusion Extensions
Development tools
- Adobe Flash Builder 4
- Adobe Flash Catalist CS5
Versions
- Macromedia Flex 1.0 & 1.5
- Adobe Flex 2
- Adobe Flex 3
- Adobe Flex 4
- Adobe Flex 4.5
- Adobe Flex 4.6.0
- Apache Flex 4.8.0
- Apache Flex 4.9.0
- Apache Flex 4.9.1
- Apache Flex 4.10.0
- Apache Flex 4.11.0
- Apache Flex 4.12.0
- Apache Flex 4.12.1
- Apache Flex 4.13.0
- Apache Flex 4.14.0