| 2002 |
Macromedia coins the term Rich Internet Application (RIA) and after a few precursors begins development on a project codenamed "Royale". |
| 2003 |
Royale demoed at Macromedia MAX. |
| 2004 |
Flex 1.0 released in March.
Flex 1.5 released in November. |
| 2005 |
Flash Player introduces new virtual machine that improves performance by an order of magnitude.
Development begins on Flex 2, a rewrite intended to leverage new Flash Player capabilities.
Flex 2 Alpha released at MAX in October.
Macromedia Labs introduced.
Adobe acquires Macromedia in December. |
| 2006 |
Flex 2 released in June. |
| 2007 |
Flex 2.0.1 released in January.
Adobe announces Flex moving to open source in April.
Flex 3 Beta released in June.
Public bug system goes live. |
| 2008 |
Flex 3 released in February and open source site goes live. |
