1. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 1 Adobe RIA Technologies: Adobe Flex 3 Cornel Creanga Platform Evangelist ccreanga@adobe.com www.cornelcreanga.com

2. 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Applications have evolved MAINFRAME REACH Local Global RICH Text UI Integrated media GUI CLIENT/SERVER WEB APPLICATIONS 2004 1992 1998 RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS

3. 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Rich + Reach Local Processing + Hosted Services Content /Application/Communication Declarative Languages + Scripting Designer + Developer Collaboration RIA Technical Characteristics

4. ® ADOBE FLEX 3 A highly productive, free open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers and on the desktop with Adobe AIR

5. Flex Builder IDE  Flex Builder IDE  Eclipse Plugin or turn-key install  Accelerates Design  Design view and code view Understanding Flex  2 languages  MXML (actually a library of ActionScript)  ActionScript 3  Compilers  Debugger  Profiler  Rich Component Library Flex SDK Flex Class Library MXMLActionScript Debuggers

6. How Flex Works in the Browser Flex Builder IDE Flex SDK Flex Class Library MXMLActionScript Compile SOAPHTTP/SAMF/SRTMP/S Web Server Existing Applications & Infrastructure J2EE Application Server LC Data Services XML/HTTP REST SOAP Web Services Browser Flash Player

7. How Flex (Flash) can integrate with the Javascript API  Use ExternalInterface  Supported in every modern browser  From ActionScript, you can call any JavaScript function on the HTML page  From JavaScript on the HTML page, you can call an ActionScript function in Flash Player

8. Adobe AIR enables web developers to use existing technologies to build and deploy rich Internet applications on the desktop.

9. Adobe AIR Application Stack Cross-OS Application Integrated Rendering Integrated DOMs & Scripting Flash Flex ActionScript XML Audio Video HTML PDF HTML JavaScript XML CSS Flash PDF Adobe AIR APIs Mac, Windows, Linux & Device OS File System Access Network Detection Notifications Application Update Drag and Drop Local Database...

10. Adobe Air security highlights  Applications can be signed using certificates. The certificate is used for install and update  Use Encrypted Local Store or SQLite for storing sensitive data  Sandboxes Application sandbox Non – application sandbox (does not have access to AIR api) Use SandboxBridge in order to communicate between them  It is your responsibility to check for data validation and to use secures channels in order to exchange data

11. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information