There’s not much improvement since my first look at free Flex IDEs. The use of a full-blown visual designer is still a challenge. So, Flex Builder for Windows is still your first choice – and worth every penny.
Nevertheless, if you are not one of those full time Flex developers and only wanna have a look at what already exists, e.g. for code reviews, these free alternatives can help:
MoreProjects that use Spring’s Dependency Injection for years and start to think about using Flex in their frontends naturally ask for something similar for the Flex/AIR development. SpringSource has a new incubator project delivering such an Actionscript framework.
The first step in integrating Spring and Flex is BlazeDS. Meanwhile there are two ways to establish a communication:
Christophe’s implementation is used in a lot of projects already. But, it is pretty clear that ...
MoreAdobe has created an AIR application that demonstrates what can be done with Flex. There’s even an Eclipse integration that allows to search for components and their source code.
Tour de Flex is a showcase of Flex’s user interface components. It also shows third party stuff, like ILOG Elixir, that we’re using in our project for some time. It is worth to have a look at all components.
The presentation is a bit like the component showcase of ICEfaces. You get additional ...
MoreI read Schalk’s “Adobe announces Open Screen Project” at DZone today. Quite amazing what Adobe is doing here. They skip the licensing of the most important protocols and file formats. These are free to use now, independent from the platform, context, whatever you like.
Additionally, they promise, with the help of the big players in the wireless business, to deliver a runtime with the next Flash player release, that allows to design and deploy applications that behave the same ...
MoreToday I’ll start with the AIRgonaut series. It will give you AIR tips to desktop-like programing questions you may already answered, with Delphi, Visual Basic, and the like in the past. But, today you may recognize that all your know-how is less important and needs an update, because of such obscure ideas the Flex architects had in mind in the past 
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Well, this is what my feeling was when I started with Flex/AIR this year ...
MoreReading about it in the new edition of the German Typo3 Magazine TN3 I had a look at hype! for AIR news. I found a post about a Firebug-like tool available for AIR development, called Adobe AIR HTML/Javascript Application Introspector (scroll to middle of the page).
I’m a fan of Firebug, so I gave it a try. It delivers a JavaScript file that you can embed into your AIR project for debugging. You get a window with ...
MoreToday I was surprised by Loveley Charts, a new application based on Flex that can replace Visio in the near future. Last weekend I already read about Buzzword, a Word replacement, and SlideRocket, a Powerpoint replacement. So, there’s only an Excel replacement missing .
Yes, the AJAX guys already deliver a lot of replacements to get your office online. But, tweaks in usage are still a point of discussion.
AJAX is limited to ...
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