The bytecode is embedded in SWF files, which Flash Player and AIR execute. ActionScript 3.0 offers a robust programming model that is familiar to developers with a basic knowledge of object-oriented ...

Hybridizing Java sounds sexy but learning ActionScript … not so much. In this two-part article, Chet Haase gets you started toward the Great Migration, with a Java developer’s perspective on what’s ...

You’ll find that creating rich media Flash movies is much easier than creating similar effects in, say, Java, Dynamic HTML or Visual Basic, so there is an immediate ...

Flash, Macromedia’s Web-animation and interface-design software, has been instrumental in bringing the Web out of the staid laboratory and into a Technicolor world of on-demand information, ...