Flex 2
While still throwing a mental hissy-fit, I decided to finally download and play with Flex 2 and the Flex 2 Builder. The compiler for Flex 2 is free, but Flex 2 Builder only gives you a 30 day trial.
Flex 2 Builder seems to be really nice. I went through a small tutorial (took about 20 minutes), and built an RSS reader. Macromedia - and now Adobe - has always been good regarding giving you tutorials with their software.
Once Pudding is at 1.0 I'm going to invest some more time in coming up to speed with Flex 2. Flex plays very nice with web services, so this ought to be fun.
Flex 2 Builder seems to be really nice. I went through a small tutorial (took about 20 minutes), and built an RSS reader. Macromedia - and now Adobe - has always been good regarding giving you tutorials with their software.
Once Pudding is at 1.0 I'm going to invest some more time in coming up to speed with Flex 2. Flex plays very nice with web services, so this ought to be fun.
Labels: flex
posted by Michael Sica at
12:23 AM
2 Comments:
I get confused with all this Adobe stuff. Does Flex 2 work on the existing Flash runtime or does it need its own? And hasn't it been superceeded by Apollo anyway?
Flex 2 runs in the Flash Player. Apollo is a framework/piece of software that allows you to interact with the desktop using either Flash or XHTML/JavaScript. I believe the Apollo runtime will be distributed via an update to the Flash Player. (Which is the easiest software upgrade around.)
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