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The former Adobe Flex Builder becomes Adobe Flash Builder 4, a professional development tool designed to help software developers rapidly build rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Flash Builder is based on the open source Flex framework and in addition to improvements to basic development functionality, it gains new data-centric features and a streamlined workflow.

Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction

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design tool for rapidly creating application user interfaces without coding. It too is based on the Flex framework and lets designers transform artwork created in Photoshop or Illustrator into user interfaces that can then be utilised directly by developers to complete n application or website. The application also lets designers demonstrate functional user interfaces at an earlier stage and as often as necessary.

One the design work is complete, the project file is then provided to the developer to add functionality and integrate with servers and services using Flash Builder.

Alternatively, designers can publish finished Flash file format (.swf) files for display in a web browser.

Public betas of both products are available for download from labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash.

Adobe has also announced the release of Flex 4 framework, including support for Flash Catalyst.