AIR Plug-in Architecture??

Hi everyone,
Doing my MSc final project and thought it would be great to do project in AIR. Mentor suggested to do app with plug-in capability! "Great idea mentor i'll get sraight on it!!" but now..... not so good :'(
I would have a pretty strong background in programming for a student and would hate to srink to the challange but I can't find any documentatin on building a plug-in architecture for AIR? I have developed many apps during my studies but never one with any sort of plugin architecture.
Without any more background into my problem my question is..... does anyone know of any good documentation for me to follow or that i could look through and would set me on the right track in order to create this? Or could you explain briefly how you would go about creating this type of application?
Thank you so much for any help that anyone can give to me in advance, hope you all having a good day,
James

Look up modules in Flex, that's pretty much what you are looking for.
They can be tricky to develop unless you are doing something pretty simple, but you can take them as far as you want in terms of complexity.
If you are running your app in AIR, just be aware that the module loader can take byte arrays, so you can load modules over the network, and don't have to package them along side your main application.

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the Amazon Appstore checks for Kindle Fire support AFTER it accepts app updates. So a developer can unknowingly break KF support, and still get app updates accepted into the store!
Here is an e-mail I just sent to Amazon's KF team:
FYI, there is a significant loophole in your submission pipeline:
1) All my apps use Adobe AIR.
2) For the longest time, they were all compiled with AIR 2.7 so there was no problem. I got a bunch of downloads, including from Kindle Fire users.
3) A week ago, I updated most of my apps to AIR 3.1, and broke Kindle Fire support, without my realizing it, because I didn't know that the KF only supports AIR 2.7. Unfortunately, all the updates with broken KF support were accepted into the store!!!
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What should have happened: NONE of the updates should have been accepted after it was realized by your review team that they broke Kindle Fire support, while previous versions worked fine on it and KF users downloaded them. Reviewing KF support separately, after the initial review/acceptance, is not a good process!
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LV 2011 test Plug-in.zip ‏42 KB

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