Flex is a complete set of tools to develop rich Internet cross-platform applications based on the Flash platform. With Flex, you can create applications that not only have the "wow factor" necessary to please clients and users alike, but the "usability factor" necessary to make your application a real success.
Flex 2 has recently been released and can be downloaded at Adobe's Web site. This release includes Flex Builder 2 (an IDE based on Eclipse) and Flash Player 9. At Adobe's Web site, you'll also find tools specifically for ColdFusion such as the ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity package and ColdFusion extensions for Flex Builder. If you know how Flex 1.5 works, you'll be happy to hear that Flex 2 doesn't require a Flex server and that you can develop and deploy applications with Flex 2 for free using the Flex SDK (if you don't use the IDE).
A Flex application communicates to external services, and we find ColdFusion to be a perfect tool for providing those services. In this article, we'll walk you through the construction of an application with a Flex frontend and a ColdFusion backend. We believe that the integration with ColdFusion is so smooth you won't even notice you're transferring data from a remote server. The application you'll construct is a simple to-do list, but it will let us show you several Flex and ColdFusion features.
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