Flash Builder and the Digital Enterprise Platform: How are they related and what is the value of using them together?
The Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) is an enterprise-scale composite content application platform for building customer experience management applications. Flash Builder 4.5 Premium ships with ADEP and is tightly integrated as the main client-side tool for application development. A number of Flash Builder plug-ins are provided to accelerate: development of composite applications; integration with the ADEP content repository and integration to other data sources such as databases. In addition, visual model-driven development plug-ins are provided to generate client and server-side application code, enabling rapid creation of applications which access and synchronization with back-end data systems. These tools are accessible directly from Flash Builder 4.5 as an embedded update site.