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Adobe Releases Second Flex 2 Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-there-was-much-merriment dept.

mikepotter writes "Adobe released the second beta of Flex 2 yesterday. As well, they announced a coding contest, where 6 people will win a Plasma TV and an XBox 360. Developers can also use the Flex / AJAX bridge to build applications using both Flash and AJAX technologies that can interact with each other, similar to what Google Finance does."

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  1. Re:Question by iamdaflash · · Score: 1, Informative

    It will still compile to a flash swf file but the IDE is eclipse based, it's pretty cool the display is all set up in xml and you can switch between source/display view. Also actionscript 3 is going to be alot faster, can't wait to see what people are going to make with it.

  2. The OSS Alternative by curunir · · Score: 2, Informative

    Open Laszlo is also a nice product. It still mostly requires flash on the client-side (they have an alpha-ish support for rendering in DHTML), but the server-side is licensed under the CPL (a.k.a. what Eclipse uses).

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