Editing Apache Flex (section)

=== Adobe Flash Builder and Flex 4 ===
Adobe released Flex 4.0 (code named Gumbo) on March 22, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/ |title=Adobe Flash Builder 4: features |publisher=Adobe.com |date=2009-07-14 |access-date=2010-12-04| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101203224053/http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/| archive-date= 2010-12-03 | url-status= live}}</ref> The Flex 4 development environment is called Adobe Flash Builder,<ref name="AFB-Name">{{cite web|url=http://www.leebrimelow.com/a-much-needed-name-change/ |title=A much needed name change (Adobe Flash Builder) |last=Brimelow |first=Lee |publisher=leebrimelow.com |date=2009-05-15 |access-date=2014-06-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821085522/http://www.leebrimelow.com/a-much-needed-name-change/ |archive-date=2014-08-21 }}</ref> formerly known as Adobe Flex Builder.

Some themes that have been mentioned by Adobe and have been incorporated into Flex 4 are as follows:

* Design in Mind: The framework has been designed for continuous collaboration between designers and developers.
* Accelerated Development: Be able to take application development from conception to reality quickly.
* Horizontal Platform Improvements: Compiler performance, language enhancements, BiDirectional components, enhanced text (Flex 4 includes the new Text Layout Framework<ref>{{cite web |url=http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/ |title=Adobe Labs - Text Layout Framework |publisher=Labs.adobe.com |access-date=2010-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204230652/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/ |archive-date=2010-12-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>).
* Full Support for Adobe Flash Player 10 and above.
* Broadening Horizons: Finding ways to make a framework lighter, supporting more deployment runtimes, runtime MXML.
* Simpler skinning than the previous versions.
* Integration with Adobe Flash Catalyst.
* Custom templates

Flash Builder is available in two versions: Standard and Premium,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adobe.com/products/flex/upgrade/ |title=Flex: Upgrade details |publisher=Adobe |date=2009-07-14 |access-date=2010-12-04| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101203183741/http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/upgrade/| archive-date= 2010-12-03 | url-status= live}}</ref> the premium adds the following features;

* Testing tools
* Memory and performance profilers
* An automated testing harness to connect to all the leading testing tools
* FlexUnit support
* command-line build capability