Related tools LiveCycle Data Services LiveCycle Data Services (previously called Flex Data Services) is a server-side complement to the main Flex SDK and Flash Builder IDE and is part of a family of server-based products available from Adobe. Deployed as a Java EE application, LiveCycle Data Services adds capabilities to Flex applications. BlazeDS Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, Adobe plans to contribute the BlazeDS technologies to the community under the LGPL v3. BlazeDS gives Adobe developers free access to the remoting and messaging technologies developed by Adobe. Concurrent with pre-release of BlazeDS, Adobe is publishing the AMF binary data protocol specification, on which the BlazeDS remoting implementation is based, and is attempting to partner with the community to make this protocol available for major server platforms. Flex and ColdFusion Flex 2 offers special integration with ColdFusion MX 7. The ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 release adds updated Flash Remoting to support ActionScript 3, a Flex Data Services event gateway, and the Flex Data Services assembler. Flex Builder 2 also adds extensions for ColdFusion providing a set of wizards for RAD Flex development. A subset of Flex 1.5 is also embedded into ColdFusion MX 7 middleware platform, for use in the ColdFusion Flash forms feature. It is possible to use this framework to write rich web applications, although its intended purpose is for rich forms only. Application Frameworks There are a number of application frameworks available which help the developer solve some common tasks and set up the application structure according to best practices. Tide, part of the Granite Data Services platform. Swiz Parsley Cairngorm PureMVC DropAS3 Fabrication Mate RobotLegs Notable sites using Flex Sherwin-Williams color visualizer Yahoo! Messenger for the Web BBC iPlayer desktop downloader mint.com ChessCube BigBlueButton HBO Go VMware vSphere Web Client See also FXG List of rich web application frameworks References External links Flex Flex Flex Cross-platform software Free integrated development environments Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Formerly proprietary software Rich web application frameworks Software development kits Software using the Apache license 2004 software