Development of the new generation Flex Builder and friends seems to be humming along nicely. A couple of months after releasing the first alpha build to the general public, the next release is complete and available for download .

I haven’t actually taken the time to look into Flex 2.0 and AS3 in particular. The first thing i would like to figure out how AS3 and Flex are related to each other. In other words, do I need the Flex mxml format to create apps? Or can i call functions inside the Flex 2.0 framework directly from AS3, without using mxml.

I hope option two is doable. I always loved the Flex “look and feel” and possibilities it offers for creating fully featured RIA’s. I just always had the urge to keep some sort of control and/or influence over it when developing. Just like i didn’t like to use databinding coponents in flash mx and above. Oh well, let’s see what Macromedia (ahum…Adobe) has in store for us shall we?

update: Current version of Flex 2.0 is at Beta2…. oh man, i’m so far behind….
update2: Current version of Flex 2.0 is at Beta3….