Macromedia Rolls New Flex Builder Tool

KingFishKingFish
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    This is the narrative that played in my head while I was reading that article:

    "Hmm, this looks like a tool we could add to our web development systems in the lab that I work. It looks like it would really supplement some of the other... $12,000 per license????" :eek2:
  • CodeCharger
    edited September 2004
    I am a fan of a variety of Macromedia software and a big fan of CodeCharge Studio. When I saw the demo for FlexBuilder I thought "cool that's a pretty handy IDE like what I have been using with CodeCharge Studio: quickly build data integrated web pages in ASP, PHP, JSP, CF, etc." Then I saw the price, Macromedia wants $12,000 and it appears to be a server centric solution whereas for about $500 with Code Charge Studio I can quickly build web database apps and put them on any server that supports the language. Reminds me of Spectra.
  • technobabbler
    edited December 2004
    I played around with the MXML language in Eclipse 3.0, tossed it into Struts Tomcat container and delopyed on port 8080. NP. I looked around for the Flex Builder IDE (AKA Brady) and couldn't find it. Looked around further and paused for a second and noticed $12,000. I just couldn't relate the $12,000 to anything until I stopped my eyes from scanning and realized it meant it will cost that much per installation when the trial runs out. Okay, um, hopefully some Fortune 500 company is coughing up $12,000 per installation on to of the $6,000 the may be paying for their CMS on top of if they're paying for a Microsoft Server on top of this totally amazing guy who has to already no J2EE who now becomes worth abou $100,000.
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