A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles ActionScript code and XML-based user interface descriptions (MXML) into binary Flash files (SWF files). It also includes a variety of user interface functions for creating rich client applications. See Flash, MXML and ActionScript.
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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