Through this book developers will be able to design and deploy Rich Internet Applications using the Flex 3 framework in combination with MXML and ActionScript 3.0. They will also be able to develop efficient and seamless Flex applications to communicate with JSP and process data sent by the server. Java developers will learn about the integration of a Java backend, using BlazeDS 3.2 with Flex. In addition to this, users will be introduced to the various aspects of Flex 3 which include creating custom components, debugging the application in the production environment, using RPC services, styling their applications using external CSS and internationalizing. They will be able to build an end-to-end Flex e-commerce application using all major features of Flex which is covered throughout the book.