Flex 2 Public Alpha

Macromedia has announced a new portal for developers. With the Macromedia labs the company is going a new wey in their strategy.

By time their are some alpha releases of Flex 2, Flex Framework and the Flash Player 8.5. If you are a interested RIA developer this alpha release is a must have. Today it was my first time with a flex product and i was surprised how fast you can create RIA´s with it. I am using the Eclipse plugin(codenamed Zorn). For me the IDE is nearly complete, their is an easy way to debug the application threw the Flash 8 authoring enviroment and you are able to run and compile the application directly threw the eclipse IDE(Run As -> Flex Application).

But what i am most suprised was the new Action Script Virtual Machine which is included into the new Flash Player 8. I have seen tests withit and the new scripting language ActionScript 3 and i was very surprised by the results. Up to 100!! times more performance for specific applications. And what i like also a lot is that the guys from MM have not implemented the old AS 1 and AS 2 waste into this virtual machine.

There are also several new features wich are supported by Player 8.5, one of them is i have already said the AS 3 language, but read the articles at the MM labs.

see ya in a completly new RIA world