Using Flex Builder 2 > Getting Started with Flex Builder > Introduction

Introduction

Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing applications that use the Adobe® Flex™ 2 framework, MXML, Adobe® Flash® Player 9, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe® Flex™ Data Services 2, and the Adobe® Flex™ Charting 2 components.

Flex Builder is built on top of Eclipse, an open-source IDE, and it provides all the tools you need to develop Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 applications. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh OS X, is available in several versions, and installation configuration options let you install it as a set of plug-ins in an existing Eclipse workbench installation or to create an installation that includes the Eclipse workbench.

This topic contains the following sections:

What you can do with Flex Builder

Flex Builder versions

Flex Builder configurations

System requirements

Activating Flex Builder

Typographical conventions

Flex 2.01