flex?

[oldarney]

what is flex and why should i use it instead of flash? quick and simple right.

[roshankolar]

Traditional application programmers found it challenging to adapt to the animation metaphor upon which the Flash Platform was originally built. Flex seeks to minimize this problem by providing a workflow and programming model that is familiar to application developers.

Flex was initially released as a J2EE application or JSP tag library that compiles MXML and ActionScript on-the-fly into Flash applications (binary SWF files). Later versions of Flex support the creation of static files that are compiled at authoring time and can be deployed online without the need for a server license.

The goal of Flex is to allow Web application developers to quickly and easily build rich Internet applications. In a multi-tiered model, Flex applications serve as the presentation tier.

Flex features development of graphic user interfaces using an XML-based language called MXML. It comes with various components and features that make capabilities such as web services, remote objects, drag and drop, sortable columns, charting/graphing, built in animation effects, and other interface interactions simple. Since the client only loads once, application workflow is significantly improved versus HTML based applications (eg. PHP, ASP, JSP, CFMX) which require executing templates on the server with every action. Flex's language and file structure are seeking to decouple application logic from design.

Flex and Flash are two separate applications with two different domain targets. Flex is purely web, database, charting, grids and lots or rows and columns. Flash is graphics, web animation, gaming, broadband. clear??

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roshan kolar:o

what is flex and why should i use it instead of flash? quick and simple right.

[oldarney]

so flex is for php with actionscrip, but instead of hypertext its flash.