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Adobe Rolls Out the Much Awaited Flex Development Updates – Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4
Adobe Rolls Out the Much Awaited Flex Development Updates – Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4
Last week Adobe officially released the updated versions of its Flex development tools Flex SDK4 and Flash Builder 4. Both these tools are more powerful than ever and boast of making Flex open source.
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat,
India
(prbd.net)
14/06/2010
The newly recruited Adobe Creative Suite CS5 has been added an update of the popular Flex development tools of Flash Builder 4. Previously known as Flex Builder, the Flex IDE is officially release by Adobe along with the update in the Flex technology itself. The Flex SDK 4 and Flash Builder 4 have been timely released in the wake of the criticism axed on Adobe for the lack of mobility in its Flash technology. In fact Adobe has aggressively made Flex open source and available for the Android phones too.
Flash Builder is a distant cousin of Flash Professional and is mightier than its previous versions. The latest version showcases an advanced developer facility in code hinting and code generating technology that helps the Flex developer in creating Flex RIAs faster and more efficiently. There are significant improvements to the tool that make Flex development a more enthralling experience for the Flex developer. The fourth version introduces the Spark architecture components that help the developer in creating customized interfaces and skins. The Flash Builder itself is built on the much popular open source IDE – Eclipse. This has become a world standard for software development and had to be implemented too. The whole Flex development fraternity is delighted and eager to have their hands on Flash Builder as Adobe packs an incredible collection of powerful new features in it. The final release follows two public Beta releases that provided just a trailer to the big thing itself. For the testers and debuggers too there is a bit of good news as Flash Builder automates their tasks with hinting expressions to the developers. There has been a module of unit testing wherein the FlexUnit enables running individual scripts in the IDE itself. The data connection too becomes smooth that enables better data synchronization between the client and the server.
The Flex SDK 4 on the other hand takes the world by complete surprise as it makes Flex open source. The work on Flex SDK 4 has been focused on three primary themes. Firstly, the designing part provides a framework that supports a new degree of expressiveness, easily enabled with tools. Secondly, the Flex developer productivity is taken care of by improving compiler performance and adding productivity enhancements to language features like data binding. And finally, a framework evolution that takes advantages of the new Flash Player capabilities by adding features required by common use-cases.
At the end of the day Adobe has done some hard work in adding to the popularity of the Flex development by releasing Flex SDK 4 and Flash Builder 4 platforms. Flex 4 is a major change from the previous versions and it clearly shows.