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  • Adobe Releases ActionScript Code Coverage Plug-in for Flash Builder

    Adobe has made available a prerelease of an ActionScript Code Coverage Plug-in for Flash Builder, which aims to help developers understand exactly what code is executed while an application is running. When added to Flash Builder, the plug-in provides a new Eclipse perspective that allows you to start the code coverage tool.

  • Amethyst, a Flex IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio Released

    Amethyst is a fully-featured Visual Studio IDE for the Adobe Flash Platform. It supports the drag-and-drop design, editing and debugging of Flex and AIR applications and it can also load Flash IDE projects for editing and debugging.

  • MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 Released with Flex, GWT and iPhone Scaffolding

    Genuitec and Skyway Software have announced the release of MyEclipse for Spring 8.6. The latest release includes accelerators for Spring Core, Adobe Flex, Spring MVC, GWT, Spring Web Flow and iPhone Web applications. The release also introduces a new set of Spring development editors, Code Assistants, that facilitate the annotation-based development of Spring and JAX-WS artifacts.

  • SourceMate 1.1 for Adobe’s Flash Builder 4 Released

    SourceMate is a companion tool for Flash and Flex developers that adds support for code generation, refactoring, code templates, metadata tags and more. Release 1.1 features improvements like customization of the code that SourceMate generates and improved stack traces.

  • Flex SDK and Flash Builder 4: An In-Depth Interview with Andrew Shorten

    Recently, Adobe announced the release of the Flex 4 SDK along with Flash Builder 4, which was formerly known as Flex Builder 3. InfoQ spoke with Andrew Shorten, Senior Product Manager at Adobe, to learn more about these releases, how they fit into the overall Flash platform, and what to expect in the future.

  • Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 Released

    After many months in beta, the Adobe Flex developer team has released the final version of the Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder). While the Flex SDK is available for all platforms, Flash Builder 4 is currently only supported on Windows and Mac OS X. The Flex SDK is free to download and use without cost, while Flash Builder is available on a trial basis and requires purchase.

  • Adobe Flex: How have the Latest Developments Affected its Momentum for Enterprise Adoption?

    The Adobe Flex ecosystem has experienced significant growth in the last years, with a plethora of community driven projects and deployments. Never the less, in the last few months there have been several developments like its exclusion from the iPad platform, community reactions about long lasting bugs and more, that have led to questions about its future viability.

  • The State of Flex RIA Development Ecosystem

    Flex 1.0 was released in March 2004. Since then, the Flex based RIA development has been increasingly gaining momentum; and RIA has become a well accepted web application development approach. To assess the state of Adobe Flex, InfoQ reviewed the current Flex RIA development ecosystem.

  • Opensource ActionScript Debugger - De Monster

    InfoQ reported a Flash and AIR debugger Arthropod earlier this year. De MonsterDebugger is another debugger launched this year for Flash, Flex and AIR application development.

  • FlexMonkey 1.0 Released

    Gorilla Logic, Inc. has announced the first production release of FlexMonkey with version 1.0. FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool for Flex and AIR applications. FlexMonkey provides for the capture, replay, and verification of Flex user interface functionality.

  • Mocking for Java and Flex

    There are plenty of choices for creating mock objects in Java but Flex has seen little development in this area, until recently. The popular and maturing Mockito framework now has a Flex counterpart, which aims to bring mocking to Flex.

  • GraniteDS Continues to Evolve

    GraniteDS 2.0.0 was recently released and continues to evolve and mature, providing a very realistic competitor to Adobe's solutions.

  • Develop Flex Application with Microsoft Visual Studio – Amethyst IDE

    It’s always a developers’ wish that they can reuse their acquired skills to apply them to new technologies. Amethyst IDE from Sapphire Steel Software is such tool that allows .Net developers start developing Adobe Flex or AIR applications from their familiar Visual Studio environment.

  • Model Driven Development with Adobe Flex

    Adobe has announced another step forward in the Flex eco-system with the beta release of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 (LCDS).

  • Flex Open Source Data Visualization Framework: Axiis

    A new open source addition to the Adobe Flex world is Axiis, a data visualization framework released in May under the MIT license. Data visualization is a term frequently used to describe graphical views of application data, such as charts and graphs.

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