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Flex Software is an Open Source Web Application development tool that deploys across all major browsers,desktops and operating system.It is suitable for cross-platform. Rich Internet Applications based on the Adobe Flash Platform.Flex Applications can be written using Adobe Flash Builder or by using the freely available Flex compiler from Adobe.
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Versions:-
i) Macromedia Flex Server 1.0 and 1.5
ii) Adobe Flex 2
iii) Adobe Flex 3
iv) Adobe Flash Builder and Flex 4
Related Tools:-
1) Adobe Flash Catalyst
2) Live Cycle Data Services
3) Blaze DS
4) Granite Data Services
5) Flex and Cold Fusion
Features of Adobe Flex:-
a) The Platform was developed on an animation Metaphor
b) XML based language helps to develop Graphical User Interface
c) Adobe Flux interacts with the core language of flash player,called Action Script.
d) User Interface tools include buttons,list boxes,trees,data grids,server text controls,
Web services,drag and drop,modal dialogs,animation effects,application states,form validation
and other interaction.
e) Add ons include Charts and Graphs.