On March 22 Adobe officially announced the product versions of Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 and ColdFusion Builder. This is some great news for the flash dev community as Beta versions proved that Flash Builder and the new Flex SDK are powerful tools to enhance developer and designer workflow. The just launched final versions were significantly improved to enable developers to gain the best in development time, integration and building more expressive applications.
Flash Builder 4 comes with over 90 new features, such as event code generations, a new Package Explorer, getter-setter generation, support for ASDoc tooltips right in the IDE, just to name a few. All these are intended to boost your coding speed and therefore, make the workflow more effective.
Among other important upgrades are a full overhaul of the Eclipse based editor, new data services browser and Network monitor that can help you debug network traffic such as AMF services. As you know, Flex Builder has been re-branded Flash Builder which is going to give people a clear idea about the scope of what that product does.
One of the most important things introduced within Flex 4 is a new component and skinning architecture called Spark. It brings an expressiveness of RIA applications to a whole new level in addition to supporting the new Flash Catalyst to Flash Builder workflow.
Adobe’s new release brought some piece of joy to ColdFusion community too as they finally got a decent IDE. It is based on Eclipse and includes a full line by line debugger that supports breakpoints. The new CF IDE is deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9, plus integration between ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder makes it fast and easy for CF developers to create Flex applications. The best part about it is that purchasing the premium version of Flash Builder, you’ll also get CF Builder and vice versa.
Still doubting whether you should buy new Adobe products? To clear up everything, look at this comparison chart created by Adobe that includes features of Flex Builder 3, Flash Builder Standard, Flash Builder Premium, and the Flex 4 SDK.
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