Flex

I'm currently sitting in the Macromedia Community College getting a sneak peek of Macromedia Flex, a new "presentation tier solution for enterprise rich internet applications." This is a new Presentation Server on top of a J2EE server (Tomcat, JRUN, Webshphere, etc, etc). A .NET version is in the works :).

Basically flex is an XML tag based language for building a Flash based application. So <mx:Label /> will give you a text label in the flash movie. Toss in <mx:TabNavigator /> and get a tab based flash menu system (sexy I tell you...). Using MXML syntax, heck, even I could write a flash movie application...

Hold your breath... style sheets for Flash... now that's just insane... Flex allows you to style the default components by using style sheets. You can also "skin" the components with a built in skinning API. And if that's now enough, you also get Data Grids, and Data Navigators as well...

Now we just have to wait and find out what it costs ;)

Posted by Daniel Short on Nov 18, 2003 at 12:00 AM | Categories: MAX -

2 Comments

Jeff

Jeff wrote on 11/20/03 7:41 AM

Ahnold says: FLEX those muscles... you flabby girly-man!
Daniel Short

Daniel Short wrote on 11/20/03 7:41 AM

lol