Hi Mark, Just a "short" answer (from Wiki) to your question:: "In fact, before they decided to change them name, I wondered why they were associating the name with "Flex" in the first place."
Certain things in the following description need be corrected of course, like the last entry in Release History.. but anyway. Flex was there right from the beggining since Macromedia introduced it. Thanks George 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. .... Release history Flex 1.0 March 2004 Flex 1.5 October 2004 Flex 2.0 (Alpha) October 2005 Flex 2.0 Beta 1 February 2006 Flex 2.0 Beta 2 March 2006 Flex 2.0 Beta 3 May 2006 Flex 2.0 Final- June 28, 2006 Flex 2.0.1 January 5, 2007 Flex 3.0 Beta 1 June 11, 2007 Flex 3.0 Beta 2 October 1, 2007 Flex 3.0 Beta 3 December 12, 2007 Flex 3.0 February 25, 2008 Flex 3.1 August 15, 2008 Flex 3.2 November 17, 2008 Flex 3.3 March 4, 2009 Flex 3.4 - August 18, 2009 Flex 3.5 - December 18, 2009 [1] Flex 4 - 2010 --- In [email protected], "Mark A. DeMichele" <d...@...> wrote: > > I think the new name makes perfect sense. The current FlexBuilder > doesn't only "build" "flex". It builds "flash" as well. When you think > of it, it is truly a "Flash" "Builder". In fact, before they decided to > change them name, I wondered why they were associating the name with > "Flex" in the first place. When I started, it was not obvious I could > use it to build a simple flash animations without the flex framework, > which I actually needed to do for a few projects. I think of it as a > "programmers" tool for making flash "apps" as opposed to an artist's > tool for making pretty animations. >
