Flex Toolkit for Apex

Last week I read a few tidbits about folk wanting to see Flex on Salesforce. See Anatole Tartakovsky who wrote “After spending a week with SalesForce development I feel very strongly that a service with embedded Flex doing communications and metadata for both Flex and AJAX is a boon for developers and user.” Indeed it is. Tim Anderson received a hint about Flex, and was “staying tuned.”

Well, if you are tuned in, it’s now official—there’s a great new Flex Toolkit for Apex that allows you to create your own Flex applications that utilize the Salesforce platform, making it really easy to create rich GUIs to your data, making it really easy to create mashups on the Salesforce platform, and with Apollo, create offline applications too.

Some links:

• I wrote an article introducing the toolkit: Creating Flex Salesforce Mashups. It’s got a walk-through screencast too.
• Adam Gross just blogged about the release.
• The Apex Developer Network has a great Flex Toolkit page dedicated to the release, with a great screencast from Adam showing what you can potentially do with a mashup created using Flex/Salesforce.

Technorati Tags: mashups, flex, salesforce

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