Specifications

13ADOBE FLEX 3
Building and Deploying Adobe Flex 3 Applications
Build phase
To build an application for Flex SDK, you define a directory structure on your development system for application
files, and define the location of application assets. You then compile, debug, and test your application.
The compile-time configuration for a Flex SDK application is primarily a process of setting compiler options to
define the location of SWC and RSLs, to create a SWF file with debug information, or to set additional compiler
options. When compiling applications, you compile your application into a single SWF file, and then deploy the
SWF file to a web server or application server for testing.
Deploy phase
With Flex SDK, you deploy your application SWF file on your web server or application server. Users then access
the deployed SWF file by making an HTTP request in the form:
http://hostname/path/filename.swf
If you embed your SWF file in an HTML or other type of web page using a wrapper, users request the wrapper
page. The request to the wrapper page causes the web server or application server to return the SWF file along
with the wrapper page.
Secure phase
Security issues for Flex SDK applications often have to do with how the application accesses external resources.
For example, you might require a user to log in to access resources, or you might want the application to be able
to access external data services that implement some other form of access control.