What is Adobe Flex? Is it just Flash II?

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Alright, I\'m confused by all the buzzwords and press release bingo going on.

• What is the relationship between flash and flex:
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Flex is a framework FlexBuilder is an IDE (in an attempt to resolve the confusion between the 2, adobe is renaming FlexBuilder to FlashBuilder)

if you do not know what a Framework is:

Flex is to Flash as what CodeIgniter is to PHP

or like what .net is.

I like to think of a framework as extending a language like you would extend a class in OOP.