Update 08/03/09: I’d like to congratulate Nephi and Brian for their participation in the book giveaway. They nailed the answer and emailed me in record time. I’ll be sending out your books this week. Great work guys!! Thanks to everyone else who sent in the answer and checking out the sample PDF.

The kind people at Packt publishing got in touch and turned me on to a pretty cool book covering Flex 3, BlazeDS, LCDS and Java titled Flex 3 with Java. They were cool enough to send me a couple of extra copies of the book that I am able to giveaway to the Flex community! The first two people to email me the key features of E4X as described in the sample chapter available for download as a PDF will win a free copy of the book. (Unfortunately only US candidates are eligible for this giveaway.)

I’ve only had a chance to review some of the book so far, you can check back later for a more in depth review. I checked out the chapters on BlazeDS and LCDS a little and there is some pretty good info available.

You can get more information on the book by visiting the Packt website. You can also download Chapter 5: Working with XML, you’ll need it for the giveaway.

Here is some additional info on the book from the Packt website:

This book provides comprehensive information on various aspects of Flex 3 and ActionScript 3.0. These include developing simple applications, handling events, creating custom components and events, using RPC services, integration with Java and BlazeDS, styling and formatting, and how to package and deploy Flex applications.

You will start with downloading, installing and configuring Flex 3 SDK and Flex Builder 3 and learn basic concepts such as what MXML and ActionScript are, understanding UI components, controls, compilers, and more. Further you will develop simple applications and slowly advance into more depth where you will learn advanced concepts such as creating custom components, debugging, integrating with Java, using RPC services, styling, internationalizing, and deploying Flex applications, and more.

One of the things you’re really going to love about this book is that you will develop a full-blown e-commerce application using a combination of Flex 3, ActionScript 3.0, BlazeDS 3.2, and Java. At the end of the book you will have the knowledge and experience needed to develop Rich Internet Applications.

I’d like to thank Swati at Packt again for getting in touch and sending along the books for me to review and do the giveaway. Good luck to anyone participating in the book giveaway and thanks for stopping by. Hope you’re all having a great weekend, and don’t forget to get your Flex on