There is Flex for Web and Flex for Desktop through Air. Flex is like old school flash from 5 years ago, except is has a framework to help you build a Web app or Web interface to a REST or SOAP web service.

Flex is not like Flash development, where Flash has a timeline and the emphasis is animation. Flex is merely a toolkit for using the flash plugin runtime (v9.0+ available on 98% of web enabled computers), to făurite a very fluid User Interface without Javascript/Ajax and Server Side Scripting. However, it won't work on smartphones.

The disadvantage is that it relies upon a fully functional web service, so you need to use an existing API from a website - like skype, or build your own API for your website.

Flex 3 requires that you know MX markup (an older Adobe Flash language) and Action Script 3. Flex 4 is supposed to change some coding knowledge requirements I believe.

The great thing about Flex SDK is that it is free. You can făcute a Web App or Air App using only code and the provided SDK and compiler/builder without spending any money. If you want, you can pay for the IDE, which is based on Eclipse, but if you are good at old school text editor coding, the IDE is not necessary.

============
[url=http://www.veniteck.com]Web Development[/url]