Vichu- For the greater good....

Okay now...as i've said in my previous post, i now start the real technical aspect of so called Flex.....So...get ready to flex urself!!!.....

I dont want this post to get that big....bcos i'll have to handle the nerve of my readers....i'll post this in two different ones!!!.

Before we start up....let me tell you for what is Flex mostly used.....

Flex is generally opted for those application(Both web and desktop App's) which require a great user interface(For Desktop App's) and awesome RIA's(Rich Internet Applications for web applications)...This is the main bottom line of the origin and the development of Flex...And as always Adobe being one of the front runners in the field of user interface enhancement and the efficient graphic applications, tried their hands on the enhancement of their improvising the RIA's over the internet!!!...This lead to the development of an entirely new framework FLEX.

Flex gives you just what you need for transforming a traditional web user interface into a great user experience.And simultaneously they've even achieved a proportionate success in the field of desktop applications by using Project Apollo more Commonly called AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) .One of the most interesting feature of flex is that the output of the application is just a SWF file....the native file extension used by the Adobe Flash Player.So you need not have any complex platform to run your application...all you need to do is to have flash player...which is mostly inbuilt in most of the recent Operating Systems. In this way Flex also handles the Platform independence which most of the new frameworks rely upon......Next thing what added up to the success of FLEX is that it is a Open Source Framework!!!...meaning that you are free to use the framework and contribute to the change you need to the existing framework for its greater good!!!.....

Now as an act of getting inspiration i would now like to list out some good websites which use Flex framework to enhance their RIA's......

Sony Ericsson http://www.sonyericsson.com
MercedesBenz http://www.mbusa.com
Volkswagen UK Used Car Locator http://www.volkswagen.co.uk
Toufee Online Flash Video Maker http://www.toufee.com/

And also Yahoo Sites have now completely changed to the flex framework....ie all the new look of the yahoo is because of Flex!!!

I would like to stop this post here and continue the rest in the next post where I'll briefly describe the working of the Flex platform and in what way is it different from the normal web applications.