What is Flex?

Adobe® Flex™ is an open source cross-platform development framework for creating true enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Flex enables us to create expressive, high-performance applications that run identically on all major browsers and operating systems. Also, since Flex is based on the Adobe Flash platform, the only requirement to run a Flex application is the ubiquitous Flash Player.

Flex applications serve as the presentation layer in a multi-layered model. Flex applications provide a stateful client that retains information while performing different operations so there is no need to load a new web page each time that a request is made.

Flex and the Flash Player provide many useful ways to interact with the business layer residing in the server, allowing data to be sent or loaded without requiring the application to reload the whole view.

Benefits

Flex applications offer the following benefits:

• Flex applications provide almost the the same richness of a desktop application, and do so while running inside of a standard web browser.
• Flex offers seamless integration of the user interface with XML-based data services, including Web Services, XML/HTTP, and RSS.
• Shorter development time than traditional HTML based applications.

Our experience

Anden Solutions has proven experience at developing Flex applications for Fortune 500 clients. We are currently using Adobe Flex version 2.01 and version 3. We can deliver stunning and practical interfaces that integrate seamlessly with back end systems and applications and work with asynchronous XML data services. The use of Flex, combined with our experience and processes, allows us to rapidly deliver outstanding products to the market.

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