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Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional software is a productive Eclipse based development tool for creating business-critical rich Internet applications that run in Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR, enabling intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual layout and design of the user interface.

Powerful coding tools
Adobe Flex Builder 3 is a powerful Eclipse based IDE that includes editors for MXML, ActionScript, and CSS, as well as syntax coloring, statement completion, code collapse, interactive step-through debugging, and more.

Rich visual layout
Visually design and preview user interface layout, appearance, and behavior using a rich library of built-in components. Extend the built-in components or create new ones as needed.

New in Flex 3--Interactively set and preview CSS values on any of your components in Flex Builder design view.

Interactive data visualization
Create data dashboards and interactive data analyses by simply dragging and dropping a chart type and linking it to a data source using the Flex charting library. Use the powerful new Advanced Datagrid to enable users to explore complex data.

New in Flex 3--Use the powerful new Advanced Datagrid to enable users to explore complex data. Charts have also been enhanced with new interaction support, a drawing API, and support for multiple axes.

Skinning and styling
Customize the appearance of an application using CSS and graphical property editors. Quickly set the most commonly used properties, and preview the results in design view.

New in Flex Builder 3--Design View within Flex Builder has also been enhanced to support rendering of skins and styles, allowing designers and developers to update properties and visualize how they affect each skin without needing to rebuild the application.

Integration with Adobe Creative Suite 3
New Flex Skin Design Extensions for Adobe Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fireworks make it fast and easy to import ready-to-use creative assets directly into Flex Builder 3. Use the new Adobe Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional to create interactive, animated content in Flash that can then be exported as a Flex component.

Code refactoring
The new Flex Builder 3 refactoring engine allows developers to quickly navigate through code or to quickly restructure code by renaming all references to a class, method, or variable.

Native support for Adobe AIR
Flex Builder 3 provides the fastest way to create applications for Adobe AIR, including all the tools required to build, debug, package, and sign AIR applications. The Adobe AIR runtime lets you quickly develop RIAs for the desktop using the same skills and code-base you use to build RIAs for the browser.

Powerful testing tools
The Flex Builder 3 memory and performance profilers enable developers to improve application performance by providing tools to monitor and analyze memory consumption and CPU cycles. Support for automated functional testing tools such as HP QuickTest Professional (formerly Mercury QuickTest Professional), is also now available in Flex Builder 3 Professional.

Advanced data services
Invoke web services or request XML or other data via HTTP using a rich, built-in library of data access services. Use open source BlazeDS to easily connect applications to back-end services leveraging Flex Remoting and Messaging, providing, a binary, high-performance, HTTP-based data transport, plus real-time data push and pub/sub messaging.

Flex 2 and 3 SDK support
Flex Builder 3 can create applications based on either the Flex 2 SDK or the Flex 3 SDK, enabling developers to leverage many of the great new Flex Builder 3 capabilities while maintaining Flex 2 applications.

Improved project workflows
Use new Flex Builder 3 project wizards to support the most common back ends. New wizards make it fast and easy to get started, whether you're using PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Java. Workflow for developers using LiveCycle Data Services is improved as well. Lastly, improved project portability support enables developers to share projects and application settings more easily.

Web Service introspection
Flex Builder 3 can now retrieve a WSDL and generate ActionScript proxies to make calls and serialize/deserialize strongly-typed objects. New code hinting is available for making Web service calls and dealing with responses.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Flex Builder 3

• Powerful coding tools: Take advantage of editors for MXML, ActionScript, and CSS; syntax coloring; statement completion; code collapse; interactive step-through debugging; and more.
  
  
• Rich visual layout: Visually design and preview user interface layout, appearance, and behavior using a rich library of built-in components. Create or extend those components easily if you need to.
  
  
• Interactive data visualization: Create data dashboards and interactive data analysis by simply dragging and dropping a chart type and linking it to a data source using the Flex Charting library.
  
  
• Skinning and styling: Customize the appearance of an application using CSS and graphical property editors to quickly set the most commonly used properties and preview the results in Design view.
  
  
• Integration with Creative Suite 3: Import ready-to-use creative assets directly into Flex quickly and easily with new Flex Skin Design extensions for Adobe Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fireworks software.
  
  
• Code refactoring: Find references to classes, variables, and methods, and rename them easily.
  
  
• Native support for Adobe AIR: Build desktop applications with the same skills and codebase as your RIAs with new desktop components and Adobe AIR development tools.
  
  
• Powerful testing tools: Use memory and performance profilers to investigate memory use and analyze where applications are using resources. Automated functional testing support, now included in Flex Builder Professional, enables regression testing.
  
  
• Advanced data services: Invoke web services or request XML data via HTTP using a rich, built-in library of data access services. Use open-source BlazeDS to easily connect applications to back-end services, leveraging Remoting and AMF, a binary, high-performance HTTP-based data transport. You can also add real-time data push and pub/sub messaging.
  
  
• Open-source framework: Beginning with Flex 3, the entire Flex framework is now available as an open-source project. Flex Remoting and Flex Messaging are also available as open source in BlazeDS.

System Requirements:

• Windows Vista, XP, 7, NT4, 2000, 2003 et 2008 Server
• 1.8 GHz or faster processor
• 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
• 500MB of available hard-disk space (additional 500MB required for plug-in configuration)
• Java™ Virtual Machine: Sun™ JRE 1.4.2, Sun JRE 1.5 (included), IBM® JRE 1.5, or Sun JRE 1.6
• Eclipse™ 3.2.2, 3.3 and 3.4 for plug-in configuration (Eclipse 3.3 recommended for Windows Vista)