The Flex 3 SDK beta and Flex Builder 3 beta are available now from Adobe Labs. As Adobe is moving Flex to open source they have now opened access to their bug tracking system and full roadmap for Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3. This is great to see, especially for setting a benchmark of quality standards.
One thing that impresses me alot with Adobe lately is their constant flow of new developments. These guys get software development, they get marketing and now they are starting to win some big numbers of developers over. With a significant swing of users moving to an Apple OS and some moving to Ubuntu the Flex platform will become crucial for software developers to master. Adobe are the first to admit they have to make it easier, and with the recent Fireworks CS3 and now Flash CS3 they are letting designers skin and build components in their favourite/familiar design environments and easily import them into Flex Builder.
I guess I was thinking optimistically when I got my hands on the first Flex Builder beta a few years back, shocked to see it didn't have the rapid CRUD tools that have come standard since the mindblowing Dreamweaver Ultradev (back in 2000-01). Adobe are finally putting this into Flex Builder 3, not in this beta but looks like it will be implemented in the next few months. Thats super cool because it means a whole lot more people will be able to build Flex applications rapidly.
Apollo has been renamed to AIR, not sure if Adobe are the next Nike but it looks like they are "just doing it" pretty well at the moment.
Forgot to mention the caching now available in Flex...about time, now apps can be as small as 50KB.
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