The book describes fundamental programming concepts in ActionScript 3.0, including the ActionScript language, event handling, object-oriented programming, data types, regular expressions, XML (E4X), networking, and Flash Player security.

The book describes application development tasks, such as creating applications, using Flex components, the Flex data model, and error handling. Topics covered: Flex Programming Elements; User Interfaces; Advanced Flex Programming; Data Access and Interconnectivity.

Adobe Flex is a free open source framework for developing rich Web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. 

This books aims to introduce Flash Professional to those with no prior experience with Flash. It will act as a document that presents instructions on how to use Adobe Flash Professional from the perspective of people learning how to use it themselves.

ActionScript is similar to JavaScript with its syntax and functionality. ActionScript may be difficult to learn for beginners with no programming experiencing, however, it becomes easier to grasp with repeated practice and use.

This is the official guide to the Alpha release of Adobe Apollo, the new cross platform desktop runtime from Adobe Labs. It describes concisely how Apollo works, and offers numerous examples for those who want to start building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the desktop right away. ...