Adobe Flex Builder 3
Flash began life as a way for web designers to add simple vector animations to their web pages. Interactivity and programmability and become the one must-have browser plug-in. In the process, and almost unnoticed, Flash has turned itself into an online computing platform with Flash content viewable by almost all internet users.
Now Adobe is determined to fully capitalise on this platform by unleashing Flash’s ability to create full-blown, self-contained Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) – and to take the same power to the desktop. To unlock Flash’s full potential as a computing platform, however, Adobe needed to rebuild its technology and applications to appeal not to the designer but to the developer. What it came up with was Flex.