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Flex
In short, Macromedia Flex is a web application framework built on J2EE.
It uses
- a description language, MXML,
- a scripting language, ActionScript (similar to JavaScript), and
- Java code to generate a web application.
Instead of HTML, Macromedia Flash is used for the GUI.
The author's $0.02: A new description language. A new scripting language. A proprietary GUI technology that UNIX users can't use. If that doesn't sound freaky, I don't know.
© 1998-2005 Christian Treber, ct@ctreber.com
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