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February 01, 2006
Adobe Flex Now In Beta
We released Adobe Flex 2.0 beta today on our Adobe labs website. There are three main parts to the beta: Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe Flex Enterprise Services and Adobe Flash Player 8.5. The Flex Builder tool, to those who aren't familiar with it, is an IDE to create Flash based applications. You can create the applications using Flex Builder, and compile the apps into flash files that you put on your website. Today Adobe also announced that the Flex Builder SDK, which will include the compiler and documentation, will be available for free... So now, anyone will be able to build Flex applications, with cost no longer being a barrier to entry. Those of us who still require the full IDE will be able to purchase Flex Builder 2.0 for less than $1,000 (final pricing yet to be announced).
The Flex Enterprise Services will be of interest to existing LiveCycle customers, who are looking to expand their existing enterprise web applications and provide a more intuitive and graphically pleasing interface to them than with HTML. Read more about Flex Enterprise Services and how it can help your business. Also today, we announced that Flex Enterprise Services will be available for use by a limited number of concurrent users, on a single CPU system, for free.
So, there you go... The barriers to entry have been removed. I've seen some cool integration work with LiveCycle and Flex already, and now its your turn. Get started with Flex by downloading the beta. Get started with LiveCycle by joining the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program and downloading individual developer versions of LiveCycle software. Then, contact me and let me know about the cool things that you're building using our two sets of technologies.
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Still no OS X version of Flex? Boohoo. Will there ever be one? I like the OS X Flash player though... at least there is that.
[Mike: I believe that we've said we will have an OSX version of Flex Builder... Meanwhile, you can check out some instructions on compiling Flex applications on the Mac.]
You haven't said it loud enough ;)
Glad to see there is a workaround though... just without the builder its hard to really take advantage of the simplicity offered in Flex builder.
[Mike: Totally agree!]
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