Amidst the hustle and bustle leading up to MAX, I managed to steal some time to work on a skunkworks project. The idea was to let people experience the fun and instant gratification of Flex, without needing to download and install anything at all. And thus The FLEXifier.
Using The FLEXifier you can enter and compile any combination of MXML and ActionScript (the one limitation being that you can only compile a single file, so no external files or data or images). You can start with one of the examples, or enter code of your own. Assuming the code compiles you’ll see the results immediately (if not, you’ll see error messages instead). And then, when you are happy with your creation, The FLEXifier can even e-mail the SWF and MXML to you directly.
The application itself is a combination of ColdFusion and Flex Java libraries. Initially I was using
Enjoy The FLEXifier, and if you have suggestions on how to improve it, please share.
Hi Ben,
Any chance of you releasing the Java API to run the compiler? We are using cfexecute to run the mxml compiler at the moment and run into permissions issues on Linux and OSX which would be eliminated if we had a Java interface we could call from CF.
Cheers
Grant
Hi Grant,
The Java API will be available on an OEM basis, but that requires a separate license agreement. Feel free to contact me if you’d like more details.
Matt
Very cool.
It appears that Flexifier’s host is down at http://try.flex.org/
… any ideas or alternate locations I can play around with it?
Yes it appears to be down…
Anybody knows what happens to this website?
Thanx,
Simon Tremblay
Still down? (a user reported this via my blog so I’m commenting here)
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JRun closed connection.