flex

actionscript projects rely on the core actionscript classes whith in the flash code base and do not have access to any of components in the flex framework. actionscript is the object-oriented programming language that you use in your flash files to add interactivity to your applicatons.
mxml is used with felx server and is dynamically compiled into standard binary swf files. actionscript uses variables to temporarily store information when running your program. variables are referened by their names.

to create or assign a strict data type variable, you will need to add a colon(:) and the data type after the variable name.

the application container is the parent container of other containers.  a state is a named structure that contains modifications to the visual presentation of components,while a transition is a grouping of various different elements. there are effects and transitions. effects are changes to the visual presentation of an object. effects operate for a predefined duration. examples of flex effects include fades,motion,shrinking and growing.when an effect is paired up with a change of state, it is called a transition. transitions apply their effects to one or more components.

states can also modify the

a trigger is the hook that launches code based on an event. when using a bound variable, there are two steps to the process. the first step is that the source variable must be declared as bindable using the mxml metatag[bindable]. flex does a great job at splitting out the presenataion of your application from the working application logic.

styles are the visual properties of component such as the size of the text in a richtexteditor, or the color of the background in an accordion control.

themes are collections of styles graphical assets such as images and skins.  they define the flex application 's apprearance. they can modify as many properties as you like. one of the tools that flex provides to access remote data is called the xml http service request. it is a form of  a remote procedure call request.

hhtpservice components let you interact with http services which can be any http uri that accepts http requests and sends responses.