Adobe TM Flex Resources Prayank Swaroop Evangelist (Asia Pacific),Adobe http://www.prayank.net http:// www.adobe.com /products/flex

What is Adobe TM Flex? http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line Visual Layout Flex Builder 2 Code Hinting Debugging Skinning and Styling Flex SDK 2 (FREE) Command-line Compiler & Debugger Flex Data Services 2 Message Service Data Management Service RPC Services MXML and ActionScript 3.0 Flex Framework and Class Library Flex Charting Extensible Charting Components

Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line Visual Layout Flex Builder 2 Code Hinting Debugging Skinning and Styling Flex SDK 2 (FREE) Command-line Compiler & Debugger Flex Data Services 2 Message Service Data Management Service RPC Services MXML and ActionScript 3.0 Flex Framework and Class Library Flex Charting Extensible Charting Components Open Source

How Flex works… MXML and ActionScript Flex Class Library

How Flex works… XML/HTTP REST SOAP Web Services Browser J2EE Application Server Flex Data Services 2 Flash Player Web Server Existing Applications and Infrastructure Flex Builder IDE Flex SDK MXML ActionScript Flex Class Library Compile Data Data .swf .swf .swf

Watch & learn (Most of these apps have source code available)

Mailing groups The mother of all Flex mailing groups [email_address] 6700+ Flex developers about 100 messages everyday

The mother of all Flex mailing groups

[email_address]

6700+ Flex developers

about 100 messages everyday

Flex in India [email_address] Mostly newbies Most discussions on Flex (+ some about flex events in India) I strongly encourage Indian Flex developers to join it Flex User Groups in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune started.

[email_address]

Mostly newbies

Most discussions on Flex (+ some about flex events in India)

I strongly encourage Indian Flex developers to join it

Flex User Groups in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune started.

Flex Component Explorer http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

Charting Sampler http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html

Flex Styles Explorer Adobe Consulting

Flex Styles Creator Derek Wischusen: Flexonrails.net

Flex Filter Explorer Joe Johnston: Merhl.com

Flex Primitive Explorer Jason Hawryluk: Flexibleexperiments.wordpress.com

Flex Transitions and Effects Explorer David Keutgens: blog.keutgens.de

labs.adobe.com Flex 2 tag library for JSP http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_2_Tag_Library_for_JSP - a set of JSP tags that you can use to embed Flex applications to a JSP page Flex Module for Apache and IIS http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS - similar to working with server-side scripting languages such as PHP or JSP Flex Stress Testing Framework http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Stress_Testing_Framework - helps Flex developers using FDS load test their Flex 2 applications Flex Ant Tasks http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Ant_Tasks - build your Flex projects using ANT Flex Scheduling Framework http:// labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Scheduling_Framework - allows you to create any number of Scheduling Components.

Flex 2 tag library for JSP

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_2_Tag_Library_for_JSP

- a set of JSP tags that you can use to embed Flex applications to a JSP page

Flex Module for Apache and IIS

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS

- similar to working with server-side scripting languages such as PHP or JSP

Flex Stress Testing Framework

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Stress_Testing_Framework

- helps Flex developers using FDS load test their Flex 2 applications

Flex Ant Tasks

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Ant_Tasks

- build your Flex projects using ANT

Flex Scheduling Framework

http:// labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Scheduling_Framework

- allows you to create any number of Scheduling Components.

Flash Player 9 penetration http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html Emmy Huang – Product manager for Adobe Flash Player http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/ Every quarter Millward Brown study is carried out Mature markets include US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan. The Emerging markets are surveyed every other wave. They include China, South Korea, Russia, India and Taiwan.

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

Emmy Huang – Product manager for Adobe Flash Player

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/

Every quarter Millward Brown study is carried out

Mature markets include US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan.

The Emerging markets are surveyed every other wave. They include China, South Korea, Russia, India and Taiwan.

Some other links http://www.flex.org http://video.onflex.org http://www.riaforge.org/ http://www.osflash.org

http://www.flex.org

http://video.onflex.org

http://www.riaforge.org/

http://www.osflash.org

Actionscript 3 libraries http://actionscript3libraries.riaforge.org/ corelib - MD5 hashing, JSON serialization, advanced string and date parsing ++ FlexUnit - unit testing framework for Flex and AS3, similar to JUnit Syndication library - parse Atom and all RSS versions License : BSD

http://actionscript3libraries.riaforge.org/

corelib - MD5 hashing, JSON serialization, advanced string and date parsing ++

FlexUnit

- unit testing framework for Flex and AS3, similar to JUnit

Syndication library

- parse Atom and all RSS versions

License : BSD

As3 crypto http://as3crypto.riaforge.org/ Encryption library for Flash Player 9 AES, BlowFish, DES, Triple DES, XTea - Symmetric ciphers CTR, CBC, CFB, OFB, CFB-8, ECB - Confidentiality modes for symmetric ciphers PKCS5 - Padding for symmetric ciphers RSA - public key encryption method SHA-256, SHA-224, SHA-1, MD5 - Hashing Functions HMAC - Keyed hashing function Random - PRNG class ARC4 - PRNG/Fast Encryption method Hex, Base64 - Static methods to convert binary data to and from text formats License: BSD

http://as3crypto.riaforge.org/

Encryption library for Flash Player 9

AES, BlowFish, DES, Triple DES, XTea - Symmetric ciphers

CTR, CBC, CFB, OFB, CFB-8, ECB - Confidentiality modes for symmetric ciphers

PKCS5 - Padding for symmetric ciphers

RSA - public key encryption method

SHA-256, SHA-224, SHA-1, MD5 - Hashing Functions

HMAC - Keyed hashing function

Random - PRNG class

ARC4 - PRNG/Fast Encryption method

Hex, Base64 - Static methods to convert binary data to and from text formats

License: BSD

Flexlib – freely available high quality custom components http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/ http:// code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList Fire Tree Grid SuperTabNavigator And many more …

http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/

http:// code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList

Fire

Tree Grid

SuperTabNavigator

And many more …

http:// flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com / FlexBox – a repository of Flexcomponents in the wild

Searchcoders – an easier way to find answers to your Flex Qs. http://www.searchcoders.com/flex

ApolloHunter – a repository for Apollo apps in the wild http://www.apollohunter.com/

Some cool Flex apps

FlexBook http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/

Yahoo Web Messenger http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Maps http://maps.yahoo.com

Yourminis http://www.yourminis.com/minis

Labs.digg.com

Amazon Rank Widget http://amazonrank.riaforge.org/ http:// www.kylehayes.info/blog/index.cfm/Amazon -Rank License: Apache

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