This document provides an overview of Adobe Flex, including what Flex is, the Flex 2 product line, how Flex works, resources for learning Flex such as mailing lists and code examples, libraries and components for Flex, and some example Flex applications. It discusses features of Flex like visual layout, code hinting, debugging, skinning and styling, data services, MXML, ActionScript 3.0, and the Flex framework. It also provides various links and resources for learning more about Flex.

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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. How Flex works… MXML and ActionScript Flex Class Library

6. 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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. Flex Styles Explorer Adobe Consulting

13. Flex Styles Creator Derek Wischusen: Flexonrails.net

14. Flex Filter Explorer Joe Johnston: Merhl.com

15. Flex Primitive Explorer Jason Hawryluk: Flexibleexperiments.wordpress.com

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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 …

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

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

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

26. Some cool Flex apps

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

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

29. Yahoo Maps http://maps.yahoo.com

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

31. Labs.digg.com

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

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