From:     ABUG_Announce
Subject:  [ABUG_Announce] Meeting :: This Wednesday, October 11th, 6:00 PM :: Open Forum on Flex
Date:     Sunday, October 08, 2006 19:50:33

Topic:        Open Forum on Flex
Date:         Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Time:         6:00 - 8:00 PM
Cost:         Free
Where:        MIT Stata Building
              AKA Building 32, on this map:
              http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
              Room 32-144

Flex is perhaps the most exciting product/platform to come out of
Macromedia/Adobe in years. Flex is a code based authoring environment for
creating content for the ubiquitous Flash Player. It includes the server-side
Flex Data Service (FDS) which, among other things, allows developers to create
collaborative rich internet applications with surprisingly little code. Best of
all, you can do all this at little or no cost. While Adobe charges for the
FlexBuilder IDE and for clustered server-side licensing one can create
impressive applications with just a text editor, the free Flex SDK, and a server
with Apache and Tomcat installed.

But wait, the excitement doesn't end there! The Flash Player will be released
for Linux soon and Adobe's Apollo project will, in a nutshell, allow users to
install the Flash Player onto their desktops and run Flex applications offline
or in occasionally-connected mode. In other words, before long you'll be able to
use Flash or Flex to create applications that will run on Windows, Mac or Linux.
This is why Adobe is pushing the term "The Flash Platform".

This month's ABUG meeting will be an informal user-driven forum on Adobe Flex.
You're invited to bring your code, thoughts and questions. If there's a lull
Douglas McCarroll, avid Flex newbie, will show and talk about some of the Adobe
sample applications, setting up an Apache/Tomcat/FDS server, etc.

See you there!


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