创建优美的跨平台的富客户端应用

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While Flex applications can be built using only the free open source framework, developers can use Adobe® Flex® Builder™ software to dramatically accelerate development.


Flex是一种非常有用的免费开源框架，它可用来用来构建和维护富有表现力，可以部署到所有主流浏览器、桌面和操作系统上的web应用。虽然flex应用程序只能通过免费开源框架来构建，不过开发者可以用Adobe flex Builder大大加速开发。

FLEX OVERVIEW

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe UI layout and behaviors, and ActionScript™ 3, a powerful object-oriented programming language, is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger.

RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop. Both Flash Player and Adobe AIR are available as a free download on Adobe.com.

You can accelerate application development with Adobe Flex® Builder™ 3 software, a highly productive, Eclipse™ based development environment, and AdobeLive Cycle® Data Services software, a set of advanced data services that can be used in Flex development. Both of these products are available for purchase.

flex 概述

Flex是一种免费开源框架，它可以用来构建可以部署到所有主流浏览器、桌面和

操作系统的具有高度交互性跟富有表现力的web应用程序。它提供了一些基于标

准的语言和支持常见设计模式的编程模型：MXML，一种声明基于XML的语言，可

以用来描述UI布局和动作行为；ActionScript 3，一种强大的面向对象语言，可

以创建客户端逻辑。Flex也提供了丰富的组件库，用来创建丰富的互联网应用程

序的可扩展UI组建，还有交互的Flex应用程序调试器。

Flex开发的RIAs（Rich Internet Application）通过Adobe Flash Player可以

在浏览器上运行或者通过Adobe AIR在桌面运行，跨操作系统运行。这样Flex应

用程序就可以在各种主流浏览器和桌面上运行。通过AIR（Adobe integrate

Runtime），Flex应用程序可以访问本地数据、桌面和系统资源。Flash Player

和Adobe AIR都可以在Adobe.com上免费下载。

通过高生产力的、基于Eclipse开发环境的Adobe Flex Builder 3你可以提高

Flex应用程序开发，同时AdobeLive Cycle Data Service，一套先进的数据服务

软件，可以再Flex开发中应用。它们都需要付费使用。