I saw this term pop-up on the internet and thought that it was an interesting one.  AFLAX is a variant of AJAX and stands for Asynchronous Flash And XML.  Essentially it's the same concepts behind AJAX, but instead of using the XmlHttpRequest object and Javascript, your using the built-in functionality of Flash to pull data in from behind the scenes.

I have been suggesting this idea for years now, and it looks like now that it finally has an acronym people might actually take advantage of this methology.   I personally think that Flash is a great place to use this type of programming because Flash doesn't follow the typical web use model anyway.  This way you can avoid all the complaints that AJAX breaks the web.

I hope to have a couple of AFLAX examples up in the next couple of weeks, but it will probably be longer than that due to the work load around here.