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The new Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com is a jointly developed integrated development environment (IDE) that gives developers a single, powerful tool for building cloud-based rich Internet applications (RIAs), which can easily be deployed to end users through the browser via the Adobe® Flash® Player, or directly to the desktop using the Adobe® AIR® runtime. These applications run seamlessly online or offline, while taking full advantage of the security, scalability, and reliability of Force.com.

Force.com enables developers to create and deliver any kind of business applications, entirely in the cloud and without software. Developers can use Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com to extend or enhance existing salesforce.com implementations, or build entirely new applications to provide customized user experiences for any business need.

It's easy to get started. Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com is a free download, and includes a trial version of Adobe Flash Builder 4. A full or upgrade license of Adobe Flash Builder 4 Premium Edition is required to deploy applications.

  • Key Features

    Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com includes:
    • A professional Eclipse-based IDE, unifying Adobe Flash Builder and the Force.com IDE into a highly productive environment for building any kind of Force.com app
    • Online and offline data synchronization and management powered by Adobe® LiveCycle® Data Services
    • A conflict resolution service
    • A local data store for off line support
    • Data visualizations including built-in interactive charting and animation components capable of processing large data sets
    • Powerful user interface capabilities with over one hundred easily customized, reusable components, including access to motion graphics, drag and drop capabilities and more
    • Templates for creating browser, or desktop applications
    • The ability to develop once and deploy inside and outside of the browser


    The Force.com Flex framework is the new data access and synchronization framework that ships as part of Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com. It lets you build applications that interact with Force.com data using Adobe Flex and AIR.


    Force.com Flex builds on the client-side data management included in Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, but does not include the LiveCycle Data Services server-side data management functionality. Force.com Flex provides the login functionality, network detection and online and offline data synchronization, a conflict resolution service, and UI components that look and act just like data input fields on salesforce.com.

  • Why Develop Rich Internet Applications in the Cloud

    Giving users the ability to navigate, visualize and interact with information in an easy, intuitive way is a requirement for business applications as much as for the consumer web. Now that you've built your enterprise application on Force.com, you want to provide a rich experience for your users that works the way they do and helps optimize productivity and satisfaction.

    Using Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com, you can easily:

    • Add rich data visualizations like graphic charts to existing application screens, to help your users easily understand and analyze important customer, financial, or other business data.
    • Create new application screens that aggregate and display only the data that different types of users need to see, and that allow users to interact with the data in highly visual, streamlined ways so they can do more work, faster.
    • Create highly interactive user interfaces with drag-and-drop capabilities for use cases like e-commerce shopping carts, factory shift scheduling or conference agenda building.

  • How to Download and Install

    To download and install:

    1. Click through to the download page
    2. Select the appropriate installer (Windows/Mac OS) and fill out the registration form
    3. Run the installer after the download is complete
    4. That's it!

    The files installed into the environment include:

    1. Eclipse 3.4.2
    2. Adobe Flash Builder 4 Premium Trial Version
    3. Adobe LiveCycle Data Services client-side Data Management Services libraries
    4. Force.com Flex framework plug-ins
  • Screenshots

  • Resources and Documentation

    The following resources will get you up and running with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com.


    Getting Started
    Demo Applications (with source)
    Documentation
  • Adobe Resources

    The following sites provide many additional resources such as technical documentation, training materials, video tutorials and forums to help you get started using Adobe Flash Builder and the Flex framework:

  • Help and Support

    Use the following resources for help and support:

    • Access help on the Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com Discussion Board
    • Post feature requests on the IdeaExchange.
    • Submit bug reports to Salesforce.com customer support by logging into your organization, and then clicking on 'Help and Training' in the upper right.