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Farata Systems, a world leader in the RIA space  has open sourced their Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java.  The latest builds and the  source code of Clear Toolkit 3.1 are located at  http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ . The current documentation, demos, user forums, and bug trackers are also there.

Clear Data Builder 3.1 is an Eclipse plugin that allows to generate CRUD applications for BlazeDS or LCDS based on either an SQL statement or a Java data transfer object.Clear Data Builder 3.0. Clear Data Builder plugin enables Rapid Application Development of transactional Flex-Database applications based on the code generator engine. The source files for this engine are simple abstract Java classes annotated with an SQL statement or a stored procedure call. Clear Data Builder generates all artifacts (Java, XML, ActionScript) required for the application that uses Flex as a front end and either Flex Remoting or Flex Data Management Services on the server side to access the databases.

DTO2Fx is a utility that automatically generates proper ActionScript classes based on their Java peers.

Log4Fx is an Eclipse plugin built on top of Flex logging API, but it automates and make the logging process more flexible and user friendly. Log4Fx component facilitates logging and debugging of your Flex application by letting you set up the logging on the client or server sides as well as doing it remotely. Log4Fx comes with several convenient and easy to use display panels. It can output the logging information to any computer on network as well as native (debugView and file system) viewers.

Fx2Ant is a generator of optimized ANT build scripts for your Flex Builder projects. Fx2Ant plugin instantly translates the settings of your existing Flex Projects into ANT scripts, so that you can build your modules, libraries and applications outside of Eclipse and create larger integrated builds. What takes weeks on the middle-size project now can be done in less than a minute. Size-optimizing builds prepared by Fx2Ant help you cut down the download time of your large applications.