Features
Adobe Flex Builder 2: Key features
Powerful coding tools
With Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software, you can develop rich applications using a powerful Eclipse™ based IDE that includes editors for MXML, ActionScript™, and CSS, providing syntax coloring, statement completion, code collapse, quick fixes, and more.
Integrated compiler
Increase developer productivity by accelerating the build-debug cycle and providing immediate error reporting using the integrated incremental compiler.
Version control
Automatically keep a local history of every file in a project, making it easy to back out changes and revert to a previous version.
Interactive debugging
Quickly track down and resolve problems using the integrated debugger to set breakpoints, inspect variables and expressions, change values, and monitor trace messages.
Rich visual layout
Assemble and preview Flex application interfaces in design view using a rich library of built-in or custom components.
Styling and skinning
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.
Rich 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, available as an add-on to Flex Builder 2 or as a standalone product.
Rich data access and binding
Invoke web services or request XML or other data via HTTP using a rich, built-in library of data access services. Take advantage of more advanced data management capabilities, including real-time data streaming, automated data synchronization, and direct access to methods on server-side Java™ objects using Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services ES software. LiveCycle Data Services ES provides RIA integration with LiveCycle Enterprise Suite business processes and document services using remoting.
Flex Charting 2: Key features
Rich component library
Using Flex Charting 2 software, you can build visually rich applications with a library of interactive charts, including area, bar, bubble, candlestick, column, line, pie, plot, and high-low/open-close.
Complete control
Customize applications with total control over colors, fonts, and label styles via CSS.
Built-in support for data binding and data access
Flex Charting is fully integrated with the general infrastructure for effects, styles, data binding, and drag and drop in Flex Builder and will work seamlessly with LiveCycle Data Services.
Fully documented extensibility API
Customize charts with drill-down, rollover, and other interactivity, or use base classes to build entirely new chart types.
Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES (formerly Flex Data Services 2)
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