Adobe’s New Flash Tools Ease the Pain for Both Designers and Coders
Posted: June 06, 2009
By: webmonkey.com
Adobe has released two new tools for Flash developers and updated its popular framework for building sites with Flash. The company has announced the beta release of its Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly known Flex Builder), along with a new authoring tool, Flash Catalyst. The open-source Flex framework has also been updated. All three pieces of software were made available for download early Monday through Adobe Labs.
The beta releases of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst are both free downloads now. Adobe plans on collecting feedback from the Flash community before releasing the products commercially later this year. Flex Builder 3 is currently priced at $250 for the standard version and $700 for the pro version, and Flash Builder 4, as it will be re-named, is expected to be priced somewhere in that ballpark when it’s released in the late summer of 2009. Pricing and availability information for Flash Catalyst has not been determined, but Adobe says it plans to keep Flash Catalyst in beta a little longer than Flash Builder……..[read entire article]
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