title: Something to allow "Writing flex without ActionScript", or "Java to AVM2 compiler", or "Write Flex using Java" exists?
body: <p>There are many dynamic languages that target Sun's JVM (Groovy, Scala, Jython, Jruby etc) and I was sure there are many that target Adobe's AVM as well. But I was surprised to find only Haxe do something similiar. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/464722/adding-a-language-to-the-avm2">related question on this site</a></p>
  
  <p>I think the eclipse e4 SWT project doesn't compile to ABC (ActionScript Byte Code) directly, but first converts Java to AS3 and then the Flex compilter does the rest.</p>
  
  <p>Could it be that no one yet wrote a simple Java / Python / Scala AVM2 compiler that can be used as an alternative to the proprietary Adobe Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder)?</p>
  
  <p>I don't mind paying Adobe for a fine producy, but writing Java in Eclipse is so much faster and convinent than the half baked Adobe plugin suite. are there really no efforts other than Haxe?</p>