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My co-worker, Joe Berkovitz, co-authored (with Todd Rein of Adobe) and released a nifty little Flex library called UrlKit about 2 months ago. I feel like the project didn’t get as much attention as it deserved and thought some action was warranted :).

Deep linking within a Flash application of any kind has always been a challenge on projects for me personally. Mainly because the requirement was throw in after most of the application was already built. One of the great things about UrlKit is that not only does it offer an easy to use framework but I think it would also be very easy to add to an existing Flex application.

I encourage people to try out the sample application. I’m going to post some sample code in the coming weeks, going over some simple examples. There’s very little code to implement and it basically consists of setting up some rule sets where parts of the URL in the browser are dispatched to the various parts of the flex application that care. Based on the values of the URL you can decide to do whatever you want. Bind it to the state of a view component, pre-populate input fields, etc.

UrlKit - http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/urlkit