Power of BlazeDS
Recently, I found out that Adobe has released BlazeDS (subset of LiveCycleDS) that has 4 main advantages:

AS3 to Java object communication (no XML passes back and forth is needed!)
Boost up performance b/c AMF is a binary protocol
Built-in proxy support that gets around the cross domain security issue from Flex in ease.
Allow push messaging

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Here is the list of reasons why I chose Flex for the RIA development.

Write Once Deploy Everywhere - Flex generates SWF that runs on top of Flash Player VM and behaves consistently across different browsers, even mobile phones later. With this, all the browser compatibility issues are basically offloaded by Adobe.
Solid programming model with rich [...]

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