◦a large set of skinnable user-interface components with a component lifecycle ◦a set of services (HTTPService, WebService, RemoteObject) ◦has Managers to handle: ◦Styling ◦Skinning ◦Layout ◦Localization ◦Animation ◦Module-loading ◦User interaction management ◦has accessibility support ◦Flex has an Automation-Testing Framework ◦Flex SDK provides a compiler

• highlight the potentially wrongly spelled word • offer a context menu with suggestions for a correct form of the word • context menu with options to change the checking language • dialog (when pressing F7 key) to continuously spell check the text • user-defined dictionary for words that are not in the global one (this is an option that appears inside the continuous checking dialog) • translated spell checker GUI so users will see buttons and labels in the language of the current locale • standalone API, no server is required but applets are possible, see the sample. • detects capitalization errors • enable or disable each feature separately