Macromedia took the wraps off its first developer tool for its Flex platform that it says will encourage more people to build rich media and Web-facing applications.
Previously known as “Brady,” Flex Builder is an Integrated Development Environment for presentation layers. Based on Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flex Builder includes all the standard Dreamweaver features so Flex developers can build and manage any Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Pages (JSP), PHP, ColdFusion, and HTML aspects of their Flex projects. The Dreamweaver features in Flex Builder work exactly as they do in Dreamweaver MX 2004 so only Flex users gain from the additional Flex features in Flex Builder. Developers at the San Francisco-based software company said they set out to rebuild the browser animation technology in order to make it more compliant with J2EE and Web application-centric protocols such as SOAP, Active Script and XML. The IDE works with an XML schema for the Flex language could be imported to any IDE that can run XML schemas such as Notepad, JBuilder, Visual Studio, Stylus Studio and Eclipse.
Source: Internet News
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