Development Tools and their Functions of Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex development environment typically provides Flex developers similar tools and asset types that the Flex developers work with to create Flex applications. 

Files for Configuration

Flex developers should be familiar with the type of configuration they need for developing the environment they are planning to develop. Adobe Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) provides the files for the settings so that the Flex developer can use in XML format.

The default compiler options for the compiler are defined by the lex-config.xml file and this need not be separately done by the Flexprogrammer developing the environment.

The messaging and data management settings, Adobe Flash player settings, the heap size of JVM, and logging and cache settings too can be altered by the Flex programmers in addition to the alterable configurations of server and compiler.

Functionalities of Compilers 

A Flex programmer developing an environment is provided with both application compilers and component compilers by Adobe Flex. The application compiler can be used by Flex developers to compile SWF files from MXML and other source files. From the component files the Flex programmers can compile the SWC files using the component compiler. According to each Flex developer’s needs the SWC files can be used either as dynamic or static libraries with the Flex applications used by the Flex programmer.

Forms of Application Compiler

The application compiler is present in the below forms which the Flex developers can use:

•   Adobe Flex builder project compiler. The Flex Builder Project compiler is opened for Flex programmers by Flex Builder for library projects in Flex.
•   mxmlc command-line compiler. Flex developers can open the mxmlc command-line compiler from the command to create a SWF file that can be deployed to a website by the Flex programmers. 
•   Web-Tier Compiler. The Flex module for Apache and IIS compiler provides web-tier compilation of MXML files on Apache and IIS web servers for the Flex developers. This enables the Flex programmers to effortlessly and quickly compile, deploy and test your applications. Flex developers can simply refresh the MXML files in their browsers instead of compiling the MXML file into a SWF file and then deploying it and its wrapper files directly to the web servers.

Forms of Component Compilers

The component complier is also present in different forms from which the Flex programmers can choose and use:

•  Flex Builder library project compiler. The Flex Builder component compiler is opened by Flex Builder for Flex library projects.

•  compc command-line compiler. You open the compc compiler from the command line to create SWC files. You can use these SWC files as static component libraries, themes, or runtime shared libraries (RSLs).

Types of Debugger

Flex developers run the application SWF files in a web browser or the stand-alone Flash Player to test the application for bugs and/or errors. If a Flex developer finds errors in the application debugging tools can be used to set and manage breakpoints in the code written for the application.

Flex developers can avail the following debugging tools from Flex:

•   Flex Builder Debugger – This aspect of debugging from Flex provide the Flex programmers all the efficient tools expected from a robust and a competent development tool.

•   The fdb command-line debugger – The fdb uses the technique of command-line debugging where the Flex developers and Flex programmers can step into the code, and analyze and debug the application.

•  AIR Debug Launcher (ADL) - ADL is a command line debugger for Adobe® AIR™ applications that you can use outside of Flex Builder.

These are tools should be analyzed and understood by all Flex programmers before they start developing any kind of environment using Flex.

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How to Develop Amazing Mobile Enterprise Apps with Flex

Learn how to efficiently deliver rich and scalable mobile applications across a range of devices in this session geared toward enterprise developers. Adobe AIR, Flash Builder, and Flex provide the tools to build sophisticated enterprise apps for the latest smartphones and tablets, opening up a new frontier for companies looking to fully mobilize their workforce.

How to Develop Amazing Mobile Enterprise Apps with Flex

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ADEP Data Services for JEE 4.6

Adobe® ADEP® Data Services for JEE® 4.6 is the next major release of Data Services following LiveCycle® Data Services 3.1 and enables the development of world-class RIA and mobile apps with a comprehensive toolset which extends from back-office systems like SAP and RDMSs, to fully native client-side applications running on HTML5, Apple iOS, or Google Android, as well as Flex®, AIR® and AIR mobile applications, in record time.

Key benefits and new features of ADEP Data Services for JEE 4.6 preview 2 include:

• Managed Remoting API Changes
• Substantial iOS client SDK performance and stability improvements
• Apple APN, Google C2DM Push and Application State Awareness Feature is complete
• JavaScript VO and Service Class Code Generation from Modeler for Remoting-based endpoints
• Clustering and failover support for JavaScript client SDK
• WebSocket Hybi-10 (ie Chrome 15) and Hixie-76 support with option to disable Hixie-76
• More secure UUID generation for JavaScript client SDK
• Additional examples and new Samples home page (http://localhost:8400/)
• SAP NetWeaver 7.3 support
• Spring Framework 1.5.1 Support
• Reworked and simplified installer
• Java installer for AIX and other platforms
• Updated Install instructions and product documentation, and
• Over 120 bug fixes in all areas of the product

See a summary of features in ADEP Data Services for JEE 4.6

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Adobe MAX 2011 -- Hot Update

Here is the first off the venue hot update on Adobe MAX 2011

Rebecca Staley reports on Adobe's blog:
Well, day one of Adobe MAX 2011 has come; I write this from the break area of the show floor, where I’m sharing a table with several people whom I have never met. This, I think, is one of many things that makes MAX such an amazing experience: everyone comes to this massive convention center in downtown LA, knowing perhaps no one and perhaps a few others from his or her own company. 

Now, only halfway through the first of three long days, people are mingling. They share tech-y jokes and participate in the same “bring your own device” labs, they sit with other strangers at lunch and wander in tandem across the massive showroom floor.

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Game Programming . Mobile applications development . Flex Consulting . Adobe AIR & Flex programming 

Server-side programming: PHP, Java  .NET . Client-side programming . Remote Data Interchange, AMF . Flash Design

Development of standard Web 2.0 modules, video & audio streaming, messaging components, photo galleries, co-browsing, chat, in-context interactivity . Integration of Flex with third party components . Flex support

Developers and designers rub elbows while attending demos or watching this morning’s keynote speech – and the energy has been palpable.

We’re all here to learn from each other and be inspired, and the first few hours have been no disappointment.


source: Greetings from Adobe MAX 2011

Stay tuned, for more, folks!

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Flash Video on iPad & iPhone!

Adobe announces media publishers can now stream Flash-based video to iPhones and iPads

September 10, 2011

ZDNet UK reports that Adobe has finally released Flash Media Server 4.5, supporting Apple iOS. Broadcasters can now stream Flash-based video content in HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), an Apple-derived format.

Photo credit: James Martin/CNET News

Apple's iPhone and other mobile devices are well known for not supporting Flash, so in April Adobe said it had come up with a workaround.

Flash Media Server usually packages video streams using MPEG4 fragments, in the F4F file format. However, the new version adds support for a different protocol, HLS, which Apple created for QuickTime and iOS.

Read the full version here.

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Adobe Cookbooks – Recipe Request Challenge!

Write some Flex code and get a chance to win a Samsung 10.1 tablet

With the help of the user community and several employees, Adobe has identified a list of recipe requests that it feels would be valuable contributions to the Adobe Cookbooks as well as for the larger Adobe community.

All that these requests need now are answers…and that’s where the challenge comes in!

For every recipe request below, the community member who provides the solution will receive:

1. An Adobe Developer Connection T-shirt
2. A chance at a Samsung 10.1 tablet

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Game Programming - Mobile applications development - Flex Consulting, business analysis and specification development - Adobe AIR and Flex programming outsourcing - Server-side programming with the usage of PHP, Java or .NET technologies - Client-side programming - Remote Data Interchange using AMF - Flash design - Development of standard Web 2.0 modules like video and audio streaming, messaging components, photo galleries, co-browsing, chat and other modules to allow for in-context interactivity. - Integration of Flex with third party components - Flex support

Adobe Cookbook recipes are snippets of code that are shared by community members to assist fellow developers in overcoming specific development issues. If a developer cannot locate a recipe to solve their issue they may submit a recipe request, where they outline the issue they are having in the hopes that someone else in the community may have a code snippet to share. When a recipe request gets answered, it gets published as a regular recipe.

More information at: Adobe Cookbooks – Recipe Request Challenge

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Flex for Rich Internet Applications

Developers are building custom web applications with Flex technology

Aug. 19, 2011

Adobe® Flex is a software development kit (SDK) used in developing cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). There are other frameworks used for developing RIAs like Microsoft Silverlight, .Net Framework and the Ajax platform. However, Flex has become the most popular.

The Flex framework has three main components: Adobe® ActionScript, MXML and Flex SDK, as well as Adobe® Flash Builder. ActionScript is used to run client side scripts whereas MXML is used to manage the interface application's objects, along with Class Library, to develop custom components. The Flex SDK is used as a coding framework for developing Flex applications.

Flex technology has given rise to the development of interactive websites that are gaining huge popularity among people of different interest groups and preferences. Here are few reasons for its high popularity over others:

• Applications developed using Flex technology run on any browser using Flash player. However, they need Adobe® AIR to run on the desktop
• Use of Flex allows you to enjoy multimedia effects on the website as it supports 3D animation
• Flex supports CSS3 and HTML5 and can be easily integrated with technologies like ASP.NET, Java and PHP.
• Flex has an automated bug-testing feature to eliminate all bugs at an early stage of web development application
• ActionScript (core language of the Flex application) provides interactivity to the applications
• Helps in creating online dashboards for webmasters with its rich library
• Easy to present data through interactive charts and graphs
• Custom-built components like content rollover and drill-down capabilities can be created for excellent data visualization 

The above are just a few reasons to make it a popular platform to create rich internet applications. Flex developers are utilizing this technology to build customized web applications and successfully creating User Interface controls, charts, formatters, data grids and validators.

There are many web development companies offering flex development services at attractive rates. You can ask for the pricing quotes from a few companies and compare their prices to make it a cost-effective investment for your business. However, quality should not be ignored while making it cost-effective for your business. Hence, you can ask for some sample work to know more about their capabilities before hiring their services. Once you finalize the company for your RIA development, keep in touch with them and ask for the work updates regularly. This way you can see whether your application is being developed as per your requirements.

Adapted from Using Flex Development... , Mark Stylan, Aug. 18, 2011. 

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Adobe releases Flash Builder 4 update, and Flex 4.1

Just a little over 3 months after the release of Flash Builder 4.0, Adobe has released the first update to it’s IDE Flash Builder 4.0.1.

The latest updates bring with it the latest Flex 4.1 SDK, the open source compiler and SDK which can be used even without the Flash Builder IDE to compile Flash applications. Flex 4.1 brings one major new feature: layout mirroring. With layout mirroring Adobe aims to make it simpler to adapt applications built for a left-to-right locale for use with right-to-left locales.

Since Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4.0 were released before the release of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0, Flex 4.1 is their first stable release to support the new features provided by there runtimes.

More interesting are their plans for a future release of the Flex SDK code-named “Hero”. The goals for the Hero release are juicy indeed.

First of all, Hero will be based on a version of Flash Player and AIR that has yet to be released, as such Adobe will be a little quiet in releasing updates, releasing only those parts which are independent of the new features to come in those releases.

Earlier Adobe had decided to create a new lighter SDK code-named Slider for creating content targeting mobiles, however with the increasing power of mobile devices, and with sufficient performance thanks to optimizations, Adobe believes that the same SDK could used, with touch-optimized, mobile-centric skins built for the highly skinnable Spark architecture.

Adobe will continue to evolve Flex 4’s new Spark architecture in an effort to bring it to parity with the feature-set of Flex 3’s Halo. The “Hero” build of Flex will bring a Spark Form, Spark DataGrid and Spark Image, three of missing components in the new architecture.

Hero will also be better optimized in terms of compiling performance, memory consumption, load time etc for large scale applications which are spread over multiple modules with multiple skins.

Also it seems future versions of Flex will be more coupled with Flash Player releases. Currently there is lack of synchronization between releases of the runtimes and the SDK, with Flash Player 10.1 support coming in this update. Whatever versions lie ahead for the Flash Player and AIR, the next Flex SDK will support them at the get-go.

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AiDaNews

This module shows a list of (ordered/related/upcoming) articles with title, id,introtext, image (thumb), author, category, hits, rating, comments, facebook and twitter share buttons... It can be used with standard Joomla's content, but some options will only be available with FLEXIcontent.

The module automatically detects if FLEXIcontent has been installed on the site and shows you different parameters accordingly, so you can use it on "normal" Joomla sites too without any problem.

Do you use K2? Get the version compatible with K2 here: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/latest-news/11963

Features:
* Show article's title, introtext, hits, rating (total or average), image (thumbnail), date, author(name or username), category, comments, id
* {youtube} and {gallery} plugins are supported, and the module can automatically grab the video's thumb or the first image in the gallery to display next to the article
* Limit to Category(/ies), Section(s), Author(s), FLEXIcontent TAGs, Frontpage
* It can be used as a "Related Articles" module, without losing any of its capabilities. (You can combine the options, so you can order the articles related to the one shown, limit them by category, section... or even show articles written in the last X days only!)
* Possibility of toggling and styling (CSS) every part of the module for a custom output
* Ready to go, as the default options already give you a nice look that can be used on any site
* Possibility of adding a custom link at the bottom of the module
* Different ordering methods: Creation Date, Last Modified, Hits, Rating, Alphabetically, Reverse Alphabetically, Custom Order, Random, Most Commented and "Upcoming Events", that displays articles based on the date (or the FLEXIcontent date field) they will be unpublished. Mostof the methods can be reverted
* Possibility of limiting the output to the last X days, or to skip the first X articles (to avoid article repetitions on the page or to pile more than one module with different display options)
* Multi-Language backend (Italian, English and French supported at the moment - send me a translation if you want!). The frontend can be changed from the module's backend
* JoomFish support (only if FLEXIcontent is installed). Language files supported on frontend.
* Possibility of shortening the title or the introtext if it's too long.
More... just check out my site for the full list and to get support!

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Source : http://extensions.joomla.org/ 

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Adobe AIR Launchpad

Adobe® AIR® Launchpad beta is a new desktop tool that helps Adobe Flex® developers get started building desktop and mobile applications deployed on Adobe AIR. Simply run Adobe AIR Launchpad and select the capabilities you need; Adobe AIR Launchpad will create a ready-to-import Flex project with your selected features implemented in a way that can be easily modified and extended. You can use the resulting project as a starting point for your AIR application.

Adobe AIR Launchpad creates a folder structure with a ready-to-compile AIR application with the selected features implemented. It also creates a ZIP file in the parent folder that can be imported directly into Adobe Flash® Builder™. If auto update was selected, a "server" subfolder will be created that contains the xml file needed on the server to control auto-update. If an install badge was selected, a "install_badge" subfolder will be created containing the necessary files to create an install badge.

Download and Discuss

• Download Adobe AIR Launchpad
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This software was designed and developed using the latest from the Adobe Flash Platform and Adobe Creative Suite, including Flash Builder 4, Adobe Photoshop® CS5, Adobe Flex 4.1 and Adobe AIR 2.



A screenshot of the configuration menus in Adobe AIR Launchpad.

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