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Flex Builder & Dogfood
While using Flex Builder today, and pondering whether we should build a complex application using it, I had a thought. Why is Flex Builder built on Eclipse RCP, rather than with their own platform? The easy answer is that was what was quickest for them to get good IDE functionality.
Could Flex 4 potentially be an AIR application? Should it? Is it time for Adobe to eat their own dogfood? Continued use of Eclipse RCP basically implies to me that Flex is not intended for complex/intensive applications.
Is Adobe ‘Flex’ being renamed?
I just received a survey from Adobe through LinkedIn that suggests they are thinking about the naming of their Flash products. There are 3 products – the traditional Flash Profressional, Flex Builder, and the soon to be Catalyst (Thermo) product. Sounds like they want to dump the ‘Flex’ brand, and possibly align these as Flash Creator, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder. Makes sense to me.
[Update] Indeed, 10 months later Adobe has renamed Flex Builder to Flash Builder.
