Book excerpt: This book provides a practical guide to planning and building a professional Flex 2 application from start to finish. Written by a team of expert developers, the book details, step-by-step, how the authors built the popular Rich Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step. Coverage provides all the information needed to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including a blog, wiki, events calendar, and more. It is packed with essential practical techniques in use at a professional production environment, which you can learn from and use in your own Flex applications.