Adobe Flex Builder lets you create, manage, package, and distribute projects for building web and desktop applica- tions. When you generate shared component library (SWC) files, you can share components and other resources between applications or with other developers. You can also work with different versions of the Adobe Flex SDK directly in Flex Builder ...

As highly optimized as Flex is, you have the responsibility as an application developer to keep an eye on the performance, memory management, and size of your Flex application. This chapter covers common tips and tricks that you can use to make sure you're creating a lean and mean Flex application. You find out how to make the SWF file, the output of your Flex application, as small as possible for production purposes and how to make your application use the least amount of memory and run as fast as possible.

This document is intended for programmers who are familiar with Flex, ActionScript 3.0, MXML, XML, and Adobe Flex Builder (or the Adobe Flex SDK compiler) who want to develop a Flex application that functions within Workspace ES.

In this chapter we ll roll up our sleeves and build several mini-applications to illustrate the use of various elements and techniques of both ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) and MXML that you ll be using in real-world projects. But this is not a tutorial and we ll be introducing these elements on an as-need- ed basis ...

This article shall show you how the Adobe Flex SDK can be used in a Portal environment to enhance the user interface for a Portlet. It has also previously been possible to use Flex with JSR-168 Portlets and alike FlexPortal , but with the new Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR-286) some things have improved, such as the support for asynchronous requests, public render parameters and events.

The Adobe AIR runtime allows you to run AIR applications on the desktop. There are a number of ways to install the runtime. You can install it separately (described below) or it can be installed either when you download and run a sample AIR application or set up your AIR development environment. The runtime only needs to be installed once per computer.. ...

This article is for Flex developers who want to integrate their applications with WebSphere Portal. It assumes that you are familiar with Flex at a basic programming level and that you are familiar with Java programming. It also assumes that you have administrative access to a working WebSphere Portal server for the relevant portions of the article. It does not, however, assume that you are familiar with programming or administering WebSphere Portal.

The Flex and Flex Builder documentation includes information for users who have a variety of backgrounds. This section helps you understand how to approach the documentation, depending on your background and what you want to accomplish with Flex and Flex Builder. ...

This paper will discuss the Adobe Flex features and architecture, providing an overview of how Flex employs service oriented principles that allow SAP users to assemble innovative and engaging solutions.

If you were looking forward to replacing all your Ajax content with Flex assets, your task would be much simpler. However, this is an unlikely and often unreasonable approach, because there are many reasons to preserve traditional Ajax functionality. ...