Flex Builder 2.0 and Charting - Retail Boxed

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 lets enterprises create personalized, multimedia-rich, Ajax-style 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.

What is an RIA?
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.

Why Flex for creating RIAs?
The tool that enterprises use to build and deploy RIAs is Adobe Flex 2, the most complete and powerful application development solution available. Flex enables enterprises to create personalized, expressive applications that dramatically enhance user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and making users more productive. And, because RIAs run on the ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player 9, enterprises can reach a broad audience of customers, partners, and employees with rich content and interactivity.

Adobe Flex Charting

A library of rich, extensible charting components to be used with the Flex 2 SDK

Adobe® Flex Charting 2 provides a rich library of interactive charts and graphs to be used with the Flex 2 SDK, enabling 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 completely customized chart types.

• A rich library of interactive charts, including area, bar, bubble, candlestick, column, line, pie, plot, and high-low/open-close
• Complete control over colors, fonts, and label styles via CSS
• Built-in support for Flex data binding and data access
• Fully documented extensibility API (including source code) for customizing charts or building entirely new chart types

System Requirements for Adobe Flex Builder 2.0 and Charting - 38036684

Flex Builder 2 (includes Charting and SDK) for Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Pro, or Windows Server 2003
• 1GB of RAM recommended
• 300MB of available hard-disk space to install
• Java Virtual Machine: Sun JRE 1.4.2 (included), Sun JRE 1.5, IBM JRE 1.5
• Eclipse 3.1 or 3.2 , BEA Workshop 3.2.1, or IBM Rational Software Architect 7.0 (plug-in configuration only)