Flex News Desk

Adobe announced at that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 software are being installed in record numbers by consumers and companies around the world. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR. Additionally,... (more)

Auto-Graphics has announced the development of AGent Iluminar, a next generation Web Services application for the company's library automation platform. AGent Iluminar was built using the free open source Flex framework, which provides end-to-end development of rich Internet appl... (more)

Across Systems, the provider of the Across Language Server, and IAI (Institute for Applied Information Science at Saarland University) have expanded their relationship and broadened the integration of their two technologies. The direct connection of the Controlled Language Autho... (more)

Open sourcing of the highly compressed communication protocol AMF and server‐side Flex components play an important role in adoption of Flex by the enterprises. Live Cycle Data Services (LCDS) is an excellent solution for building scalable RIA, but it’s not cheap. For those who d... (more)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash P... (more)

Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems. It's been used internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects by Farata's consultants.  In September of 2008, its version 3.0 goes private beta.  This toolkit ... (more)

Yesterday, a new component architecture and feature specifications were provided to the Flex SDK open source developer community. Flex team targets three primary teams: Design in mind MXML language is being adjusted to help the upcoming designer tools like Thermo automatically ge... (more)

MAX 2008 conference is the main event for people interested in the software made by Adobe.  MAX North America will take place in San Francisco MAX-2008 in November and the session schedule is published. This year its agenda includes more fifty sessions  about Flex.  This is defin... (more)

Adobe has released a substantially enhanced BPM/RIA solution. While LiveCycle suite isn't new software, its popularity increased in June of 2007 when the entire suite started to run on the same J2EE server and the RIA components were introduced. Today, over 5,000 enterprises use ... (more)

TopQuadrant has announced the general availability of TopBraid Live 2.0, a semantic application deployment platform that simplifies the creation of web services to a “click and connect” process. Users can connect data from RDF stores, relational databases, spreadsheet... (more)

Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/astro. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named "Astro,” builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with n... (more)

Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. The Open Screen Project is working to enable a... (more)

If you are selecting a technology to use for your next rich Internet financial application, do not miss a one day event Flex on Wall Street that will take place in New York City on April 18, 2008. This is your chance to meet the real-world practitioners who have been using Adobe ... (more)

Mill Valley, CA - March 19, 2008 - CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0, the latest version of its powerful, yet lightweight Unified Communications user interface framework built with ... (more)

Verb Exchange announced a deal with interface design specialist, Nitobi, to develop the desktop and web interfaces for Tabrio, a new way to stay in touch with anyone, anywhere. Verb Exchange and Nitobi will work together to enhance the Tabrio user experience, making Tabrio featur... (more)

ILOG. a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, today announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG Elixir, available now, was warmly received by the Adobe Flex community during its Beta per... (more)

Question: What do AOL, eBay, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., The New York Times Company, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s Nick.com, Sharp Corporation and others have in common? The answer is that've all launched pioneering Rich Internet Applications deployed on Adobe... (more)

A reader feedback in response to Yakov Fain's recent article "Rich Internet Applications - State of the Union" reads as follows: "This blog is certainly not an unbiased analysis, even though it's pretending to be just that. The article is basically "Flex rules, everything else dr... (more)

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools--including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components--make it easy to build rich ... (more)

Earth Live is  an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to learn the world by engaging them with a more effective UI, so complex information such as climate change can be digestible by a regular person. The ... (more)