This document provides an overview of Adobe Flex, a platform for developing rich internet applications (RIAs) involving SWF files. It outlines Key features of Flex, such as its architecture, programming model, and integration capabilities, alongside a brief history of RIAs and their characteristics. Additionally, it mentions resources for developers, including community links and documentation.

1. Adobe Flex – An Overview [email_address]

2. What’s Inside RIA What is Flex ? Why Flex ? Flex Architecture How Flex Works ? Hello World Flex Programming Model Flash Player 9

3. RIA – A brief history…

4. Rich Internet Applications Desktop Applications Web Applications Communication Technologies RIA

5. RIA RIA Characteristics Expressiveness Rich media integration Performance / Responsiveness Real time Offline Deep back-end integration Web deployment model RIA Technologies J ava FX

6. What is FLEX Flex Builder 3 Flex 3 SDK Flex Charting Server Products with Flex Integration Flex is a way to make SWF files !!!! Adobe's platform for developing and deploying Rich internet applications , which includes the following

7. Why FLEX Flex is for developers All those cool features Flash player 9

8. FLEX Architecture

9. How FLEX works

10. Flex Runtime Architecture

11. Flex Programming Model MXML Action Script Class Libraries Embed XHTML

12. The building blocks MXML Action Script Class Libraries

13. A Tour of Flex Builder 3 - Hello World

14. Flash Player 9 – A brand new Virtual Machine New World Class Virtual Machine Performance (JIT Compiler) Reduced memory consumption Action Script 3 Standard compliant (ECMAScript 4) Strong and dynamic typing Runtime error checking ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Seamless Deployment One-click upgrade Full backward compatibility Adobe Virtual Machine - AVM2

15. The most distributed software in the history of computing…….. Flash content reaches over 98% of Internet viewers

16. Resources Open Source Flex Community http://flex.org/ Flex 3 Developer Network http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ Flex 3 Help http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html Flex 3 Developer's Guide http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html?content=Part2_DevApps_1.html Flex 3 Component Explorer - Examples http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html

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