Adobe Offers Free Flex Builder 2 to Educational Users -- ADTmag

Adobe Offers Free Flex Builder 2 to Educational Users

By David Nagel
October 29, 2007

Adobe last week announced its intention to release Flex Builder 2 free for students and faculty at educational institutions.

Flex Builder, which retails for $499, is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Flex Framework, which powers cross-platform rich Web applications.

Built on the Eclipse IDE, Flex Builder 2 provides a suite of tools and libraries for developing Flex apps and extending applications built using AJAX. The IDE includes:

Editors for MXML, ActionScript and CSS;
An incremental compiler; and
Interactive debugging features and design elements, among other features.

Flex Builder 2 will be available for free to educators and students, beginning in November. It supports Mac OS X and Windows environments.

For more information on the product, go here.

About the Author

Dave Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's educational technology online publications and electronic newsletters. He can be reached at [email protected].