You know the drill: a language is called object-oriented if it supports inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism. And what do we do with interfaces?

This is a short comparison table of major elements/concepts of these two languages for a quick reference.

In Java, if you've created an object from a particular class, you can use only properties and methods that were defined in this class. This is not the case in ActionScript 3. This is one of the examples of unusual (from the OOP perspective) programming techniques.

I've been building a bunch of custom AS3 components for clients lately, and have run across the need to use view states within an AS3 component.