How to start flex development

Question

I am trying to learn flex development, however I meet some problems:

1 The official site.

I googled flex, then I got Adobe flex and Apache flex.

I want to know which owns the official support, I have heard that adobe donated the flex to apache. If so, then which should be the main development site?

I mean where can I get the documents, SDK , and IDE ?

2 The development manner.

I have found a tutorial which use the Flex 2, from the tutorial, it seems that I have install jdk, eclipse, tomcat, flex sdk and etc.

So I want to know if the flex is still bounded with java?

3 The language

Will the Action script be the main development language?

Answer 1

I would try to answer your doubts. You can find lots of examples about Adobe flex development just typing on google flex tutorials.

You can Download the SDK from here http://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/. And Eclipse here http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. And add the SDK in Window -> Preference -> Flex -> Installed Flex SDKs -> Add

Adobe flex is a group of technologies that can help you to create RIA applications. When you are programming with FLEX you use tags called MXML and a language called ActionScript that it's very similar to JAVA.

If you would like to integrate with other programming languages you should used AMF (Action Message Format).