Flex est passé en Open Source et les développeurs Java sont contents - Adobe Labs / JDN développeurs /ServeBox

Flex 2 qui se trouve [ici : Flex:Open Source - Adobe Labs] avec son [SDK téléchargeable là ] intéresse de très près les développeurs Java qui veulent faire des interfaces riches pour leurs applications; par exemple ceux de ServeBox comme le montre cette interview de JDN.

ServeBox propose son framework ActionScript Foundry en Open Source sous licence 2.0 Apache

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Pour mémoire (Mai 2007 ), voila les Flex 2.0.1 System requirements :

Flex Builder 2 (includes Charting and SDK) for Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Pro, or Windows Server™ 2003
• 1GB of RAM recommended
• 300MB of available hard-disk space to install
• Java™ Virtual Machine: Sun JRE 1.4.2 (included), Sun JRE 1.5, IBM JRE 1.5
• Eclipse 3.1 or 3.2 , BEA Workshop 3.2.1, or IBM Rational Software Architect 7.0 (plug-in configuration only)

Flex Builder 2 (includes Charting and SDK) for Macintosh

• G4 1.25 GHz PowerPC or Intel processor (for Mac)
• OS X 10.4.7 and 10.4.8
• 1GB of RAM recommended
• 300MB of available hard-disk space to install
• Java™ Virtual Machine: Sun JRE 1.5
• Eclipse 3.2 (plug-in configuration only)

Adobe Flex Data Services 2 (Includes Flex 2 SDK and Flash Player 9)

Operating systems

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Advanced Server 3.x and 4.x
• SUSE™ Linux® Enterprise Server 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on zSeries
• Solaris™ SPARC 9 and 10
• AIX® 5.3
• HP-UX 11i v2 (Itanium only)

Memory/disk space

• 512MB of RAM
• 400MB of available hard-disk space

Java Virtual Machines

• Sun 1.4.2_08 or later
• Sun 1.5
• BEA JRockit 1.4.2_08 (for BEA WebLogic 8.1 only)
• IBM 1.4.2 (for IBM WebSphere only)

Application servers

• JRun 4 Updater 6 (included in integrated installation option)
• Apache Tomcat 5.5.x
• BEA WebLogic 8.1 (SP2 or higher) and 9.1
• IBM WebSphere 5.1.1.x or 6.1.x
• JBoss 4.0.3 SP1 and 4.0.4
• Oracle 10G AS (10.1.3)
• SAP Web Application Server 6.40
• Fujitsu Interstage 7 (Japanese version only)
• Hitachi Cosminexus 7 (Japanese version only)

Flex 2 SDK

• Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003, Java 1.4 (Sun, IBM, or BEA) or 1.5 (Sun)
• Mac OS X 10.4.x, Java 1.5 (as shipped from Apple) on PowerPC and Intel processor
• Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4, Suse 10, Java 1.4 (Sun, IBM, or BEA) or 1.5 (Sun)
• Solaris 9, 10, Java 1.4 or 1.5 (Sun) Compilers only
• 512 MB of RAM , 1 GB recommended
• 200 MB of free disk space

Flex Automation

Prerequisites - you must install the following to use Flex Automation:

• Flex Builder, Flex Data Services or Flex SDK, version 2.0.1
• 100 MB free disk space
• To test a Flex application using Mercury QuickTest Professional you must use Windows and have:
  - Mercury QuickTest Professional 9.1
  - Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 6 or later
  - Flash Player ActiveX control, version 9.0.28.0