Adobe Flex – An Overviewsubin.s.sugunan@gmail.com

What’s Inside

RIA What is Flex ? Why Flex ? Flex Architecture How Flex Works ? Hello World Flex Programming Model Flash Player 9

RIA – A brief history…

Rich Internet Applications

Desktop Applicati

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Web Applicati

ons

Communication

Technologies

RIA

RIA• RIA Characteristics

Expressiveness Rich media integration Performance / Responsiveness Real time Offline Deep back-end integration Web deployment model

• RIA Technologies

JavaFX

What is FLEX

• Flex Builder 3• Flex 3 SDK• Flex Charting• Server Products with Flex Integration

Flex is a way to make SWF files !!!!

Adobe's platform for developing and deploying Rich internet applications , which includes the following

Why FLEX

• Flex is for developers• All those cool features• Flash player 9

FLEX Architecture

How FLEX works

Flex Runtime Architecture

Flex Programming Model

• MXML• Action Script• Class Libraries

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XHTML

The building blocksMXML

Action Script

Class Libraries

A Tour of Flex Builder 3 - Hello World

Flash Player 9 – A brand new Virtual Machine• New World Class Virtual Machine

– Performance (JIT Compiler)– Reduced memory consumption

• Action Script 3 – Standard compliant (ECMAScript 4)– Strong and dynamic typing– Runtime error checking– ECMAScript for XML (E4X)

• Seamless Deployment – One-click upgrade– Full backward compatibility

Adobe Virtual Machine - AVM2

The most distributed software in the history of computing……..

Flash content reaches over 98% of Internet viewers

Resources Open Source Flex Community

http://flex.org/

Flex 3 Developer Network http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

Flex 3 Help http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html

Flex 3 Developer's Guide http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html?content=Part2_DevApps_1.html

Flex 3 Component Explorer - Examples http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html

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