Adobe released a heroic wrestler to the arena of web development tools.

“Go beyond AJAX with Flex. With Flex you can do your job faster, more easily and with fewer errors”

That was an advert about Adobe Flex 2.0 beta which attracted my eyes. I went ahead, downloaded and installed. Phew! Look at this. It took my breath away…..!

Rich text editors, Colour pickers, Video displays, Sliders, Tree views all are built in together. Flex development and runtime environment allows you to create rich interfaces web applications.

Flex supports a component-based development model. We can use the pre-built components included with Flex, can extend the Flex component library by creating new components, or can combine pre-built components to create composite components.

Below is a bit from their introduction;

Flex defines a development and runtime environment that lets developers familiar with server-side technologies build rich front ends for applications that take advantage of Flash Player. While executing in Flash Player, your application can interact with server-side functionality, such as databases, web services, Java objects, and other server-side services.

Flex brings the power of Flash to developers who are familiar with traditional programming languages and server-side development environments. In Flex, you use a standards-based programming model to develop an application, describe the user interface, configure user-interface controls, and define data bindings.

I’m still playing around with the IDE and will keep my blog updated about mysterious things I found on Flex.