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Flex Builder Gumbo for MAX Attendees
| By Rich Tretola | November 17, 2008 | |
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Adobe has made the next version of Flex Builder codenamed Gumbo available to all MAX attendees. This latest edition continues to bring design and development together by making collaboration between Flash, Flash Catalyst, and Flex Builder easier than ever before.
Flex Builder also has IDE updates including the integration of Flex Unit and a network monitor which will allow developers to monitor traffic between the client and the backend server. This previously required third party tools like the Charles Proxy, which is my tool of choice.
Flex Builder also includes a new package explorer, automatic getter and setter creation, and custom file templates for CSS, AS, and MXML files.
Finally, Flex Builder adds new data management tools. The new Client Data Management (CDM) feature super-simplifies how you work with data on the server. Using the new Services Explorer in Gumbo, you can now bind UI components in your application to operations on the server. CDM then manages a CDM data store bound to this operation, allowing on-demand fetching of data for easy and efficient scrolling through large collections of data, change tracking allowing users to “un-do” actions, and automation of the common CRUD (create, read, update, & delete) functions that usually need to be hand-coded. Creating, updating, and deleting data is done within the CDM data store so that when you’re ready to update the back end system, a single call to the client data management’s commit() method handles synchronizing all of the changes for you. It all works against multiple server types (like ColdFusion, PHP, as well as SOAP and XML over HTTP) and produces straightforward Actionscript interfaces that you can use yourself, or simply let the tool do the work for you.
Topics: Announcements, Flex 4, Flex Builder, Flex Tools | 5 Comments »
November 17th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Any idea when non-MAX attendees will be able to get their hands on this?
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Never mind, they posted a build
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November 19th, 2008 at 5:23 am
If i’m just starting to learn and develop flex apps. do you think i should use Gumbo or stick with flex 3.2?
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Rich Tretola Reply:
November 19th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Since Gumbo won’t be a final product for quite some time and will be somewhat of a hybrid at first with the the current flex core Halo, I would say, you need to start with 3.2.
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July 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
[...] I’ve just been reading about the next version of Flex Builder (code named “Gumbo”) that some lucky people have just got their hands on at MAX NA ‘08, it sounds like there are some great new features. [...]