Rich Internet Applications

A Rich Internet Application (RIA) is an entirely new kind of web experience that provides customers with a compelling online experience.

With the flexibility and ease of an intelligent desktop application and the broad reach of traditional web applications, RIAs are interactive, flexible and can reach customers using virtually any platform.  RIAs are also quick to build and have the ability to drive revenue through applications that reduce process abandonment and enable intuitive self-service.

As well as increasing customer satisfaction and boosting the bottom line, RIAs provide data analysis that enables companies to continually make better business decisions.

Adobe Flex 2 revolutionizes the way people interact with the web

Adobe® Flex™ 2 is the most complete, powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) within the enterprise and across the web. It enables the creation of expressive and interactive web applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. Enterprises can use Flex to quickly build and deploy applications that improve the user experience, boost the bottom line, and analyze data to enable better business decisions.

Effective user experiences are the key to a company's success. An effective user experience is the difference between a customer who designs, personalizes, and purchases a product and a customer who gets frustrated and abandons a website. It's the difference between a sales manager who enters a customer meeting armed with rich, analyzed data and a manager working with yesterday's out-of-context numbers. It's the difference between a customer managing her account by herself and a customer spending 20 minutes on the phone with a service representative who could be solving more critical problems.

Adobe Flex 2 software is the answer. Flex is the most complete, powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform RIAs within the enterprise and across the web. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns and includes a highly productive Eclipse™ based development environment. Applications can take advantage of advanced data services for managing data interactions and integrating with back-end systems and a fast, enterprise-class client runtime based on the ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player 9. Flex enables enterprises to create engaging, interactive, expressive applications that reach virtually anyone, making customers more satisfied and users more productive.

An RIA, or rich Internet application, is an entirely new kind of web experience that is interactive, smart, effective, lightweight, and flexible. An RIA offers the flexibility and ease of use of an intelligent desktop application, and adds the broad reach of traditional web applications.

Adobe Flex Builder™ is an Eclipse™ based IDE for developing RIAs that combine the richness of desktop applications with the cross-platform reach of the Adobe Engagement Platform. Flex Builder enables developers to quickly build rich client-side logic that integrates with XML, web services, or Flex Data Services. With sophisticated design and layout tools, user interface designers can also create richer, more usable application interfaces with a customized look and feel.

Flex Charting provides a rich library of interactive charts and graphs that enable rich data dashboards and interactive data analysis. Dynamically rendered on the client and with full support for the Flex data-binding and event model, the charting components make it easy to add drill-down, rollover, and other interactivity that makes your charts even more insightful than before. All of the charts can be extended to provide additional functionality, or developers can use the base classes to create customized chart types.

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Flex Data Services provides a set of powerful server-side data management features that enable developers to rapidly deliver data-intensive Flex applications. Deployed as a standard web J2EE application, Flex Data Services enhances the client-side Flex framework by providing high-performance data connectivity with existing server-side data and business logic. Based on a robust messaging architecture, Flex Data Services integrates with existing standards-based middleware and provides services that automate data synchronization between client and server, add support for real-time data push and pub/sub messaging, and enable collaborative and occasionally connected applications. Start building applications today with the free Flex Data Services 2 Express, a single-CPU production license.

The Flex framework is a component-based development framework for delivering rich Internet applications for the Flash Player runtime. Combining standards-based languages with a rich set of extensible UI and data access components, Flex enables developers to rapidly construct applications with rich data presentation, robust client-side logic, and integrated multimedia. Applications built with Flex run across all common desktop platforms, enable complete customization of the application look and feel, and support a full range of methods for connecting to back-end data and services. The free-of-charge Flex 2 SDK includes the Flex class library as well as the MXML and ActionScript 3.0 compiler.