Flex

Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross platform, rich Internet applications based on the proprietary Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an IDE, and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services. Since Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005, subsequent releases of Flex no longer require a license for Flex Data Services, which has become a separate product rebranded as LiveCycle Data Services.

ILOG Elixir Flex Components (link)

• Radar charts (also called spider charts)
• Full 3D charts, including bar/column, area, line and pie
• A treemap display, for analyzing large data sets
• A schedule chart, for viewing and manipulating time-series data
• Organizational charts
• Country maps, for creating interactive reports or dashboards
• Interactive Dials and Gauges, for building key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards

Drumbeat Insight Flex Components (link)

• HTML Component (over your Flex SWF)
• Draggable Label component
• Date and time components
• …others

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Example Flex Application (to show you MXML):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml">
    <mx:WebService id="wsStock" wsdl="http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl">
        <mx:operation name="getQuote">
            <mx:request>
                <symbol>{symbol.text}</symbol>
            </mx:request>
        </mx:operation>
    </mx:WebService>
    <mx:Label text="Enter a symbol:"/>
    <mx:HBox>
        <mx:TextInput id="symbol"/>
        <mx:Button label="Get Quote" click='wsStock.getQuote.send()'/>
    </mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label id="quote" fontWeight="bold" text="{wsStock.getQuote.result}"/>
</mx:Application>