1. Anna-Maria Metzak http://twitter.com/anna_metzak , Elena-Oana Tabaranu http://twitter.com/oanat FII, UAIC 2009 Adobe Flex Framework

3. Released by Adobe Systems

4. Created for the development and deployment of cross-platform RIA

5. Based on the Adobe Flash platform.

8. Desktop applications (AIR)

10. charts

12. Drag and Drop

13. Modal Dialogs

14. Animation Effects

15. Application States

16. Form Validation

17. ...

21. Flex-Ajax Bridge - facilitates communication between JavaScript and a Flex SWF

22. RIA Server Architecture Basics

24. transport various content types, from simple URLEncoded variables to more complex data like XML

27. dramatically faster than any other mean of communication (send and receive strongly typed objects)

28. the ActionScript serialization/deserialization process takes place on the server side

29. Flex application architecture as MVC

30. MVC - View layer

32. Often implemented as Singleton

33. Uses Value Objects

35. Update the Model

36. Listen to the View

39. PureMVC

40. Mate

41. Swiz

42. ...

44. Text fields don't remember previous entries

45. Password manager doesn't work

46. Browser shortcuts like “Ctrl+T” don't work

48. ECMAScript for XML (E4X)

49. No More Interface Layout Pain.

50. Simple Field Validation.

51. Rich Media Support.

52. True Separation of Presentation and Content.

53. The Flex Development Environment.

54. CSS

55. Adobe AIR (Apollo)