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Flex Development

Simplesoft provides various solutions in the field of Rich Internet Application. With the introduction of FLEX - the new technology for building Rich Internet Application one can expect to have the feeling and effect of a desktop application running on a web browser.

Like any other technology and development platform; it is true that there are some advantages and limitations in flex also.

Flex based applications have rich interface and user experience is always better than usual HTML based web pages. There is no hassel of installation and updates as flex framework manages it very efficiently. Data integration and exchange is always smooth and the user of such applications will never have the feeling that the application is fetching data from the backend server. It's multitier architecture helps the developers to integrated with any kind of server-side functionalities or services.

This is how over the years Flex has become the most complete and powerful development tool and has been accepted by developers and application users across the globe.

There are two languages to develop any flex application. One is MXML and the other one is Actionscript. MXML is an XML based mrkup language and with the help of MXML codes, developers can build the interfaces of the flex application. At the same time unlike HTML flex compiles MXML into swf files and all efects are rendered on the client side by Adobe's flash player. In this way flex can provide rich and dynamic user interfaces.

One of the major disadvantage of flex is that it is not search engine friendly. So if someone intends to build an entire website using Flex - it might not be able to get visibility on search engines. But one can build a portion of the website - like event calendars, photo galleries, shopping carts etc can be built on flex.