Adobe Flex is a Rich Internet Application framework that allows developers to build robust and powerful applications for the web and the desktop. In this talk, Tomas Lin discusses the major technologies and tools available within the Grails / Flex ecosystem and dive into building a simple and fun application using the Flex plugin, BlazeDS, Grails and Flash Builder 4.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/building-killer-rias-with-flex-and-grails

Stephan Janssen’s presentation is organized around Parleys.com, a web site whose front end is implemented in Flash. He explains why they dumped DHTML and switched to Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Parleys.com-Stephan-Janssen

After a short presentation of the history and the features of Granite Data Services compared with other server side solutions (BlazeDS, LCDS), this presentation will go through the creation of a sample Flex remote application connected to a GraniteDS server (using JBoss, Seam, Hibernate and MySQL technologies). This sample application will show several key features of GDS: Seam support, EJB3/Hibernate support (with lazy initialization), code generation tools (Eclipse plugins), data push (Gravity module) and Flex side data management (Tide module)

JavaPosse.com interview with Chet Haase and James Ward from Adobe taken at Devoxx’08. This informal interview talks about the new features of Gumbo, what Adobe announced at the Devoxx conference and what similarities Flex and Java have from a development point of view.

In this episode James and Jon chat with Adam Flater. Adam is active member of the Flex community. In addition, he is the founder of the Merapi project, which provides a bridge between Adobe AIR and Java on the client.

Resources
Adam’s Blog
Merapi Project

Mihai Corlan uses Flex Builder and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform plug-in (WTP) to create a combined Flex/Java application – all without coding in Java.

Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project Home Page

Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets demonstrates how to create Flex applications that connect to a Spring backend with the new “Spring BlazeDS integration” project.