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Adobe Open Sources Flex SDK Under MPL

Posted by kdawson on from the for-real dept.

andy_from_nc writes "Adobe announced that they are open sourcing their Flex SDK under the Mozilla Public License incrementally by December. This move comes on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of their Silverlight and Adobe's CEO's criticism of it. Adobe's action will likely please other open source developers who use Flex, like me, and offers hope that we'll see a full open source version of Flash one day. You can read Adobe's FAQ on the move as well."

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  1. Flex Builder 2 *DOES* run under Linux by WarwickRyan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Flex Builder 2 is provided as an Eclipse plugin, so it's platform independant.

    Quick google for "flex under linux" returns a blog detailing support: http://blog.davr.org/2007/04/22/flex-builder-201-u nder-linux/.

    Adobe really impress me with Flex..

  2. Re:Nifty but confusing. by colanut · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, you can hand write the ActionScrpt/Flex in a text editor and use the free SDK to command line compile the .swf file to be included in your web page. As long as you know the language and syntax.

    The $700 package is a ide that has the compiler, debugger and a graphical design window to help you out.

  3. Re:You fell for it, huh? by md17 · · Score: 3, Informative

    RemoteObject is also available with the Open Source Granite Data Services project. So for free you get:
    - HTTPService (connect to any backend using any serialization you want)
    - WebService (connect to SOAP)
    - RemoteObject (Java remoting)