Speaking at FUGN: Flex 3 release

Flex 3, and Air 1.0 is now released, after being in beta for quite a long time. So this month FUGN (Flash User Group Norway) meeting, of course had to make a special event for this Flex/Air launch I gave a small presentation of Flex 3 and whats new in this release (compared to Flex 2). The Flex 3 release is divided into four major themes:

• Better workflow and intergration between designer and developer
  • Integration with Creative Suite 3 by a new template based model for skinning flex components, while the assets can be imported into a flex project and applied as skins for components
  • New Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 that provides a complete workflow for authoring content in Flash that can be seamlessly integrated into a Flex application

• Native support for Adobe AIR
  • Adobe AIR development tools is a part of the the Flex SDK and Flex Builder, and enables developers to create desktop applications

• Platform evolution and productivity enhancements
  • Persistent framework caching
  • Flex is open source
  • Support for refactoring and memory and performance profiles
  • Enhanced support for accessibility and localization
  • Enhanced browser intergration - Javascript/Ajax wrappers
  • Deeplinking is included in the framework
  • New Visual CSS editor and better support for styling of components

• New tools to work with data and enhanced data visualization components
  • Advanced datagrid with hierarchical data view, grouping, sorting and custom formatting of cell/row/columns
  • New chart components
  • Webservice introspection tool - lookup and connect to a webservice
  • Data wizards - tools to connect to remote data sources, generating proxy classes

Links and resources to get started with Flex 3

• Download the free Flex SDK and try Flex Builder to build and debug Flex applications.
• Flex Skin Design Extensions & Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3
• Flex Developer Center
• Adobe open source site

2 Responses to “Speaking at FUGN: Flex 3 release”

1. Møtereferat 3. mars 2008 // FUGN.com says:

   March 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm

   [...] presentasjon ble levert av Jill-Hege Olsen, som ga oss en meget grundig gjennomgang av hva som er nytt, både i Flex 3 som rammeverk, og i Flex Builder 3. Hun viste oss alt fra [...]
2. Øystein Wika says:

   March 4, 2008 at 1:11 pm

   Your presentation was excellent Jill.
   Thank you so much for doing it on such a short notice!

   Øystein