Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Training from the Source

Introduction

Macromedia introduced Flex in 2004 so that developers could write web applications for the nearly ubiquitous Flash platform. These applications benefited from the improved design, usability, and portability that Flex made possible, dramatically changing the user experience. These features are a cornerstone of Web 2.0, a new generation of Internet applications focused on creativity and collaboration.

Since the introduction of Flex, Macromedia—and now Adobe—has released versions 1.5, 2, 3, 4, and 4.5 of Flex. With each subsequent version, creating rich, compelling, intuitive applications has gotten easier, and the bar has been raised on users’ expectations of web applications. Countless organizations have discovered the benefits of ...