[Webpub] ABUG Meeting :: tomorrow, October 11th, 6:00 PM :: Open Forum on Flex

[Susan MacPhee]

Adobe Boston User Group Meeting tomorrow

Topic:        Open Forum on Flex
Date:         Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Time:         6:00 - 8:00 PM
Where:        MIT Stata Building
              Room 32-144

Flex is perhaps the most exciting product/platform to come out of
Macromedia/Adobe in years. Flex is a code based authoring environment for 
creating content for the ubiquitous Flash Player. It includes the
server-side Flex Data Service (FDS) which, among other things, allows
developers to create collaborative rich internet applications with
surprisingly little code. Best of all, you can do all this at little or no
cost. While Adobe charges for the FlexBuilder IDE and for clustered
server-side licensing one can create impressive applications with just a
text editor, the free Flex SDK, and a server with Apache and Tomcat
installed.

But wait, the excitement doesn't end there! The Flash Player will be
released for Linux soon and Adobe's Apollo project will, in a nutshell,
allow users to install the Flash Player onto their desktops and run Flex
applications offline or in occasionally-connected mode. In other words,
before long you'll be able to use Flash or Flex to create applications that
will run on Windows, Mac or Linux. This is why Adobe is pushing the term
"The Flash Platform".

This month's ABUG meeting will be an informal user-driven forum on Adobe
Flex. 
You're invited to bring your code, thoughts and questions. If there's a lull

Douglas McCarroll, avid Flex newbie, will show and talk about some of the
Adobe sample applications, setting up an Apache/Tomcat/FDS server, etc.


ABUG's website is at:
  http://www.abug.us

The Boston ColdFusion User Group's website is at:
  http://www.bostoncfug.org

The Boston Flash Platform User Group's website is at:
  http://www.bfpug.com

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