Take a look at this for starters... http://labs.influxis.com/?p=598
Now - consider being able to automate the testing of your Flex app on a headless machine with hooks into GPU acceleration. I don't think the question is 'what is it good for' but more - 'how can we leverage this incredible capability for the success of Flex?' Replacement for automation? Unit testing? Making ham sandwiches? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Nicolas COQUELET <nicolascoque...@gmail.com> wrote: > stupid question, > why use as3 at server side where others do better ? > when our goal is to bring flex on currently usable use cases, > isn't it? > :/ > > 2012/1/20 Omar Gonzalez <omarg.develo...@gmail.com> > >> It executes headless as3 on the command line. You can build backend >> applications with it. >> >> -omar >>