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Flex is an event-driven, object-oriented application framework and programming language that lets you build compelling and fluid Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that run in the Adobe Flash environment.

Historically, the priority in web application development has been feature velocity and time to market, at the cost of usability to the end user. Flex lets you maintain that centrally deployed rapid-turnaround model, but it gives you the power to achieve usability at the same time.

Someone coming into Flex faces unique challenges. First, many developers aren’t used to an event-driven technology. They can understand it at a high level, but don’t truly get it for a long time. Until that happens, you can’t use the technology to ...

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