Adobe Systems and salesforce.com have announced the availability of the Adobe Flex Toolkit for Apex, a set of programming tools that combines the capabilities of Flex and salesforce.com’s Apex platform to enable a new generation of Internet business applications.

Flex Toolkit for Apex claims to enable developers to create richer application experiences for their salesforce.com deployments and Apex applications. Developers can also make their Flex-based applications available on the AppExchange directory.

The toolkit enables applications to access Apex Web services APIs, enabling developers to create end-to-end Web applications.

"The Flex Toolkit for Apex combines the innovation of the Apex platform with the power of Adobe Flex to let developers create new on-demand business applications that are more capable, easier to use and more compelling than their software-only alternatives," said Adam Gross, vice president, Developer Marketing, salesforce.com.

The Apex platform’s embedded mashup features allow developers to insert services and content from the Web within the Salesforce user interface. The Flex Toolkit claims to build on that capability to allow rich user experiences—including drag and drop, rich media and desktop app look and feel—to be embedded within Salesforce and Apex applications.