Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers (Solutions) - by Marco Casario.
Many programmers prefer Flex Builder development environment as opposed to Adobe Flash CS, which is more suited for graphical/animation designers.Īlso Adobe made SDK free and open (comes with stand-alone compiler) - so it is possible to do ActionScript devlopment using only free tools.Īctionscript can also be used to write server-side applications (for example, using Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX).įront-end applications written in Actionscript can directly communicate with server-side applications written in other languages (java, etc.) using different protocols. To attract java programmers, Macromedia/Adobe have developed Flex - a downloadable collection of technologies (plugin for Eclipse IDE - including graphical designer, libraries (SDK), J2EE integration). Source files (*.as) are compiled/packaged into swf / swc files, which can be run in browsers (using Adobe Flash Player), or on desktop (using Adobe Air runtime). Actionscript (page under construction - still you may find it very useful)ĪctionScript - programming language to write Adobe Flash applications (animations, video/audio players, e-commerce applications, games, interactive business applications, etc.).