Java® and Flex® Integration Bible

Glossary

ActionScript 3

The latest edition of the scripting language based on a draft proposal of ECMAScript 4 that Flex and Flash use to develop Web and desktop applications. See also ECMAScript.

Apache Ant

A build and deployment utility written in Java that uses XML build scripts to divide build-and-deploy operations into separate targets made of one or more tasks.

Application programming interface (API)

A set of functions in an application that's made publicly available to be used by other applications for the purposes of data interchange.

Array

A data structure consisting of a group of elements that can be accessed by indexing or key names.

Bindable

A data object that can be attached to (via an event handler) and send a notification when the value is modified. See also data.

BlazeDS

An open-source Java Web application messaging technology, primarily used to send and receive data from applications written by using Adobe Flex or Adobe AIR.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

A standard style sheet language used to describe the presentation aspects — such as fonts, colors, layout instructions, and images — of the visual elements in a Web application.

Class

An object-oriented construct found in Java, ActionScript, and other languages that includes properties and methods for manipulating those properties. Classes can be instantiated.

Command line

A way to interact with a computer by typing commands after a prompt to perform certain tasks.

Compiler

A program that translates source code and creates object code. ...