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:
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 ...
MoreJavaServer Faces (JSF) is the upcoming standard for the presentation layer of enterprise architectures. It’s going to replace the good old Struts. Struts, being the first widely accepted MVC 2 framework, to separate presentation from business logic, JSF now adds a real component model, event handling, validation and more to it. JSF can be compared to GUI development, although it doesn’t result in a single standalone client-side application, but in a bunch of code for the app ...
MoreSun is doing a tremendous investment in Netbeans at the moment. I don’t really know why they are doing this. Well yes, in comparison to Eclipse it is necessary to get a kind of equalization. But, it’s still clear that Netbeans has lost it’s position to become number one in the IDE standards field. The Eclipse community became too big the last years to still fight against it for win. For me, Sun is burning money. Would be nice if ...
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Rainer Eschen is an agile coach with a focus on Scrum Project Management.
He is a Certified Professional Scrum Master I, a Certified Project
Management Associate (IPMA Level D) and co-founder of openPM.
Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
Rainer is author of the book ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development, Packt Publishing, 2009.
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