The keynote presented by Ted Patrick discussed two upcoming releases for Flex. The first release, named Moxie, will include the following:
Enhanced DataGrid/Lists
Design View Enhancements
Cross-domain caching of the Flex framework and applications
Tech also demonstrated a refactoring feature of the new Moxie release that allows you to update a function name by simply renaming the method call from anywhere in your application, this will update the name of the method in all instances of the code. You can also do the same for variable names. Moxie also offers code searching within/cross class files and a new Profiler for performance and code optimization.
The second release of Flex, named Borneo, will be the next version of FDS. Borneo integrates with Adobe Livecycle allowing Flex to work the document workflow. It will also feature a new SOAP update as well as updates to other web services.
When Apollo is released (perhaps as soon as 2 weeks on labs), there will be a plugin for eclipse that will allow you to build Apollo apps within FlexBuilder.
Ted also demonstrated some cool integration features with the upcoming release of CS3 (which includes Flash 9 and should be out at the end of March). Fireworks CS3 includes Flex components for rapid prototype development and layout of Flex applications. Fireworks automatically uses scale9 for components. These prototypes can then be saved as MXML from Fireworks and opened within your project directly. What you see in Fireworks will look the same as the MXML file in Flex. From Adobe Illustrator CS3, you can import your SWF directly into Flex.
On a side note, there was another siting of Larry and me talking with Nahuel Foronda during lunch .
Day 3 – 360Flex Conference
The keynote presented by Ted Patrick discussed two upcoming releases for Flex. The first release, named Moxie, will include the following:
Tech also demonstrated a refactoring feature of the new Moxie release that allows you to update a function name by simply renaming the method call from anywhere in your application, this will update the name of the method in all instances of the code. You can also do the same for variable names. Moxie also offers code searching within/cross class files and a new Profiler for performance and code optimization.
The second release of Flex, named Borneo, will be the next version of FDS. Borneo integrates with Adobe Livecycle allowing Flex to work the document workflow. It will also feature a new SOAP update as well as updates to other web services.
When Apollo is released (perhaps as soon as 2 weeks on labs), there will be a plugin for eclipse that will allow you to build Apollo apps within FlexBuilder.
Ted also demonstrated some cool integration features with the upcoming release of CS3 (which includes Flash 9 and should be out at the end of March). Fireworks CS3 includes Flex components for rapid prototype development and layout of Flex applications. Fireworks automatically uses scale9 for components. These prototypes can then be saved as MXML from Fireworks and opened within your project directly. What you see in Fireworks will look the same as the MXML file in Flex. From Adobe Illustrator CS3, you can import your SWF directly into Flex.
On a side note, there was another siting of Larry and me talking with Nahuel Foronda during lunch
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