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Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) often utilize different bundled technologies. Choosing the right grouping of technologies can expedite development time. Discover how to use Java EE platform components on the server side, the Adobe Flex platform on the client side, and the MySQL database server for storage persistence.

Now you can Combine the power of Adobe Flex's Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) capability, with the power of WebSphere Portal's ability to build flexible, SOA-based solutions. This article walks you through a process to quickly build rich client and component-based Flex applications for WebSphere Portal.

In this article you will build a Web application using Grails and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). You will also use some richer UI widgets from the Ext GWT library. Familiarity with Groovy is great, but not completely necessary.