More about Adobe Flash Platform & SAP Integration

Rich Islands for Adobe Flash Platform - Flex 3.0 SDK support for SAP NetWeaver was introduced on the Java stack as of 711 SP2 and on the ABAP stack as of 701 SP3 and 711 SP2.  Because of incompatibilies with Flex SDK versions it is required that Flex SDK 3.0 is used to compile a Flash Island.  In particular Flex 3.4 introduces an incompatible change to an interface.  

Flex SDK 3.4 is therefore not supported.  Please see the Adobe bug here: 
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23171

How to create a colorpicker in SAP WebDynpro ABAP using Adobe Flex - A step-by-step guide on how to create an Adobe Flex component in Flash Builder and adding the SAP WD Libraries and integrating it with SAP WebDynpro ABAP UI. 

References:

A Book about Developing SAP Applications with Adobe Flex:
http://www.sappress.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H1951

Demonstration Video of Adobe Flex application on top of SAP:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/flexsappoc/

Related articles

• SAP Netweaver 7.4(novisblog.wordpress.com)

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• What is Web Dynpro?(wd4a.wordpress.com)

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Amehtyst - An alternate IDE for Flex Developers

SapphireSteel Software’s Amethyst Professional is a new IDE for Apache (aka Adobe)  Flex which provides developers  using Microsoft Visual Studio a powerful environment for developing on the Flash Platform. It supplied for Amethyst is supplied in separate versions for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. 


Amethyst IDE includes a visual drag-and-drop designer for the following 

• Flex 3, 
• Flex 4 
• Flex 4.5 and 
• Adobe AIR. 

The Amethyst IDE contains the following components 

1. fully integrated visual designer 
2. ActionScript and MXML code editors with support for the following features: 

• code refactoring , 
• IntelliSense, 
• auto-expanding snippets (code templates) and 
• customizable code formatting.
• Cylon debugger which can debug on multiple SWFs simultaneously with support for conditional & simple breakpoints.  

The current beta of Amethyst has breakpoints, watch variables, locals, call-stack, step-into/step-out/step-over plus drilldown expansion in the debugging windows or in hovering debug tips in the code editor. There's a small movie showing a few debugging features of Amethyst here:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Debugging-Adobe-Flex-Applications

References:

1. New IDE for Flex Developers Hits the Market | Cloud Computing Journal
2. Amethyst (Adobe Flash Platform IDE)