Yesterday Adobe and Salesforce.com announced the preview release of Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com. It's an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to simplify the building of Flex or AIR applications that interact with back-end Force.com data and services. The formal release of the IDE is scheduled for the first half of 2010.

You can read more at Salesforce.com's developer site or the Adobe Developer Connection. Adobe's James Ward will be co-hosting a webinar on 11/3/09 on "Developing with Flash Builder for Force.com" (webinar information and registration).

If you'd like to learn more about what the Force.com platform is and how you can use it to build rich Internet applications "in the cloud," please see "Flex + Force.com: A Powerful Combination for Building Great, Data-Driven Web Applications."

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