Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices.

Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia and application player created by Adobe Systems. The player runs flash files created using the Adobe Flash creation tools. The flash creation tools will produce a file with the extension of SWF. The SWF file is a vector graphics file that contains all the graphics, animation and applets that make up the final interactive product.

The Adobe Flash Player uses an embeded scripting which can easily be compared to JavaScript. The embeded language used is called ActionScript which is primarily used on websites that has the need for rich animated graphics such as games and interactive applications.