So, I have been studying the flex source and I see a lot of metadata statements in the component class definitions.
Am I correct in saying that the metadata is there for Flex Builder only? From what I have read, the metadata is there so that the events, effects, etc, can be accessed from mxml as tag attributes. It seems to me, that the events, effects, styles, etc become available in pure AS3 by simply importing the proper classes and using the appropriate methods. Is this the correct interpretation of the code, or am I missing something?
