Includes Flex Charting
Adobe Flex 2 revolutionizes the way people interact with the web
Adobe® Flex™ 2 is the most complete, powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) within the enterprise and across the web. It lets enterprises create personalized, multimedia-rich, Ajax-style applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. Enterprises can use Flex to quickly build and deploy applications that improve the user experience, boost the bottom line, and analyze data to enable better business decisions.
What is an RIA?
An RIA, or rich Internet application, is an entirely new kind of web experience that is interactive, smart, effective, lightweight, and flexible. An RIA offers the flexibility and ease of use of an intelligent desktop application, and adds the broad reach of traditional web applications.
Why Flex for creating RIAs?
The tool that enterprises use to build and deploy RIAs is Adobe Flex 2, the most complete and powerful application development solution available. Flex enables enterprises to create personalized, expressive applications that dramatically enhance user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and making users more productive. And, because RIAs run on the ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player 9, enterprises can reach a broad audience of customers, partners, and employees with rich content and interactivity.
Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2: Key features
Powerful coding tools
Develop rich applications using a powerful Eclipse™ based IDE that includes editors for MXML, ActionScript, and CSS, providing syntax coloring, statement completion, code collapse, quick fixes, and more.
Integrated compiler
Increase developer productivity by accelerating the build-debug cycle and providing immediate error reporting using the integrated incremental compiler.
Version control
Automatically keep a local history of every file in a project, making it easy to back out changes and revert to a previous version.
Interactive debugging
Quickly track down and resolve problems using the integrated debugger to set breakpoints, inspect variables and expressions, change values, and monitor trace messages.
Rich visual layout
Assemble and preview Flex application interfaces in design view using a rich library of built-in or custom components.
Styling and skinning
Customize the appearance of an application using CSS and graphical property editors to quickly set the most commonly used properties and preview the results in design view.
Rich data visualization
Create data dashboards and interactive data analysis by simply dragging and dropping a chart type and linking it to a data source using the Flex Charting library, available as an add-on to Flex Builder 2 or as a standalone product.
Rich data access and binding
Invoke web services or request XML or other data via HTTP using a rich, built-in library of data access services. Take advantage of more advanced data management capabilities, including real-time data streaming, automated data synchronization, and direct access to methods on server-side Java™ objects using Flex Data Services 2.
Flex Charting: Key features
Rich component library
Build visually rich applications with a library of interactive charts, including area, bar, bubble, candlestick, column, line, pie, plot, and high-low/open-close.
Complete control
Customize applications with total control over colors, fonts, and label styles via CSS.
Built-in support for data binding and data access
Flex Charting is fully integrated with the general infrastructure for effects, styles, data binding, and drag and drop in Adobe Flex, and will work seamlessly with Flex Data Services.
Fully documented extensibility API
Customize charts with drill-down, rollover, and other interactivity, or use base classes to build entirely new chart types. |
