Gaia is a front-end Flash framework for AS2 and AS3 and is designed to dramatically reduce development time.

It provides solutions to the challenges and repeated tasks faced with front-end Flash site development, such as navigation, transitions, preloading, asset management, site structure and deep linking.

Gaia Flash Framework

There is a nice screencast here.

Gaia’s unique event hijacking engine enables you to achieve some really complex behavior with very little code. Additionally, Gaia has scaffolding which generates all the base files for your site, including Flash files, class files, and even exclude.xml files!

It uses SWFObject and SWFAddress and also forces applications to support deep linking (great for SEO purposes).

If you’re developing Flash sites and want to speed up your Flash workflow with rapid development and don’t want to have to learn a complicated framework API, give Gaia a test drive.