Foreword to the First Edition
The ability to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) has been around much longer than the term itself; since version 8, the Flash Platform has been a viable RIA platform. But it was initially geared toward designers using the environment from a creative perspective, which wasn’t ideal for those coming from a pure development background.
If you were a Flash application developer, major hurdles still remained in your way. Delivering feature-laden rich applications in a productive and timely manner was difficult because you had to do most of the work yourself.
The challenge became clear and simple: provide a pure development environment that leveraged the ubiquity and capabilities of Flash yet catered directly ...
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