The "Apollo" additions to Flex 3 are numerous. The additions include project wizards, AIR file export, UI components, and many classes. As you will see, there has been a ton of development done to make RIA on the desktop easy to build with Flex.

Lets look at the feature additions:

"Apollo" Project Wizards:
To make creation of "Apollo" applications easy, the Flex Builder contains new project type.



.AIR file Export:
To make export of finished "Apollo" applications easy, Flex Builder contains an AIR file exporter. Simply press the Export button and an AIR file is generated.



UI Components and Classes:
The components for Apollo include: FileSystemComboBox, FileSystemDataGrid, FileSystemHistoryButton, FileSystemList, FileSystemTree, HTML, ApplicationWindow, mx.managers.DragManager









Flex 3 adds lots of support for creating desktop applications leveraging "Apollo". Seriously it takes all of 5 minutes to make a useful "Apollo" application using Flex 3 and the combination of wizards, Flex 3 features, new components and classes make Flex the leading development environment for "Apollo" development.

Soon you will find out why the images are distorted! :)

Cheers,

Ted :)