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What is the Apache Flex project?
What is Flex?
Flex is a highly productive, open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns suitable for developers from many backgrounds. Flex applications run in the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR™.
You can use the Flex SDK to create a wide range of highly interactive, expressive applications. For example, a data visualization application built in Flex can pull data from multiple back-end sources and display it visually. Business users can drill down into the data for deeper insight and even change the data and have it automatically updated on the back end. A product configuration application can help customers navigate the process of selecting or customizing products online. And a self-service application can guide customers through an address change or help employees complete an otherwise complicated multi-step benefits enrollment.
In addition to the Open Source Flex SDK, there are useful tools for enhancing the application development experience such as the debug version of the Adobe Flash Player runtime and Adobe AIR for deploying applications outside of the browser. There are also professional IDE's such as Adobe Flash Builder FDT, Flash Develop and more.1
The Flex applications can be written in ActionScript and/or MXML (ie Macromedia XML).
Flex is:
- a set of skinnable user-interface components with a component lifecycle:
- a set of services (HTTPService, WebService, RemoteObject)
- has Managers to handle:
- Styling
- Skinning
- Layout
- Localization
- Animation
- Module-loading
- User interaction management
- has accessibility support
- Flex has an Automation-Testing Framework
- Flex SDK provides a compiler
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Is the Flash Player open source?
No.