Typographical Conventions Of This Guide - MACROMEDIA FLEX BUILDER-USING FLEX BUILDER Use Manual

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Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.29 or 5.0.18. You can download a copy of Tomcat from the Jakarta Project
website at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/.
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IBM WebSphere Application Server 5. You can download a trial version from the IBM website
at www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/downloads/WASsupport.html#download.
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BEA WebLogic Server 7 or 8.1. You can download a trial version from the BEA website at
http://commerce.bea.com/index.jsp.
For information on installing and configuring an application server, see the server vendor's
documentation or your system administrator.
About the Flex server
To compile and run MXML and ActionScript files, you need the Flex server, which is available for
Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.
You can order the Developer edition of the Flex server for a nominal fee from the Macromedia
website at www.macromedia.com/go/flex_trial/. The Developer edition is for noncommercial use
for developing and testing Flex applications. It is not licensed for deployment. After 60 days, it
will support requests from only five IP addresses (plus localhost), but you can still use it for
development and testing as long as you want. The software does not expire.
For information on installing the Developer edition on the same computer as Flex Builder, see
"Install the Flex server on your computer" on page
configurations, see the Flex installation guide on the Macromedia website at
www.macromedia.com/go/flex_install/.
Related topics
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Appendix A, "Basic Flex Concepts," on page 145

Typographical conventions of this guide

The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:
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Menu items are shown in this format: menu name > menu item name. Items in submenus are
shown in this format: menu name > submenu name > menu item name.
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indicates HTML tag and attribute names as well as literal text used in examples.
Code font
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Italic code font
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Bold roman text indicates text for you to enter verbatim.
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indicates replaceable items (sometimes called metasymbols) in code.
22. For information on other possible