Macromedia Flex now available.
Macromedia have announced the immediate availability of Macromedia
Flex. The Flex server offers a standards-based, declarative programming Declarative programming is a term with two distinct meanings, both of which are in current use.
According to one definition, a program is "declarative" if it describes what something is like, rather than how to create it. methodology for delivering user experiences via the Macromedia Flash
Player. These experiences, known as rich Internet applications This is a list of rich Internet applications. They are organised by their use. Communication
- Gmail - Webmail client for Google's email service
- Meebo - An instant messaging client for multiple platforms
, combine
the user interface of desktop software with the deployment of the web.
Partners and developers have already found strategic uses for Flex based
rich Internet applications. For more information, to get a trial version
of Flex, or to see rich Internet applications built with Flex, visit
http://www.macromedia.com/go/flex/. The Flex framework supports open
tooling, allowing developers to use their text editor or IDE of choice
to create applications that run on the Flex presentation server. Later
this year, Macromedia plans to release a new Flex development tool
code-named "Brady." Built on Dreamweaver MX 2004, Brady will
offer visual layout, code editing, debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. and data connectivity tools
for creating Flex applications An interactive application based on Adobe's Flash technology. See Flex. . In addition, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is working with
Macromedia to develop a Flex plug-in for the WebSphere Studio
Application Developer development environment. A pre-release version of
this plug-in is available on IBM Alphaworks at
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsadflex/.
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