This series of articles is geared directly to OpenInsight Database developers that want an easy way to bring their application to the web.  In this case, Adobe Flash via Adobe Flex Builder 3, which utilizes ActionScript as the programming language behind the scenes.  These articles will be eventually rolled into a white paper.  Here is a sample Adobe Flex front-end with an OpenInsight back-end.  It CAN be done with relative ease.  Each week (or sooner, subscribe to our RSS feed) a new article in this series will be released.  

One place that many developers and companies want to be is in a Flash environment, or partial Flash environment.  The rich experience coupled with the ease of designing your pages should outweigh your concerns about being able to program in the ActionScript language.  ActionScript is Adobe's scripting language, which is very similar to the Java or Javascript language.  

If you have never programmed outside of Basic or Basic + (or have and just don't remember how), it can be intimidating looking at the ways that these "other" languages syntax is set up.  You have semi-colons, curly braces, and parenthesis when you aren't calling a program or performing math!  In this example there are some things going on that you may have never encountered before.  ActionScript utilizes objects, classes, stricter data typing, and a completely different syntax.  The below example incorporates some of these concepts.

Next Week — comparison operators! 

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