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Adobe Flex is an Adobe Systems launched technology, which is used to develop and utilize of Adobe Flash based rich Internet applications. After Macromedia acquisition by Adobe in 2005, it became a separate product renamed as Live Cycle Data Services.

Flex 3 SDK has been issued under the open source Mozilla License at the beginning of 2008. At the same time Adobe Flash Player, which allows viewing all Flex applications, as well as Adobe Flex Builder, the application applicable to build Flex applications based on the open source platform and, stayed pry.

Many application developers found it difficult to use to the animation model the Flash Platform was created upon. Flex provided a familiar model to the developers. And one more benefit is that by using the core language of Flash Player ActionScript interactivity can be gained.

A list of interface components like buttons, trees, data grids, text controls, and different layout containers are included into Flex SDK functional. There are a couple of add-ons like charts and graphs are accessible as well. The application framework is also supplied with numerous web services, animation effects, and form validation to make it use the most comfortable and all-purpose.

Nevertheless being rather popular as a rich internet application (RIA) development environment, Flex has got its own drawbacks. Flex application user interfaces have been thrown up by a number of software analysts because of that the user experience was not satisfactory customizable.

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