Professional Adobe? Flex 3
by Joseph Balderson; Peter Ent; Jun Heider; Todd Prekaski; Tom Sugden; Andrew Trice; David Hassoun; Joe BerkovitzFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-06-01
Publisher(s): Wrox
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Summary
With Professional Adobe Flex 3, put your prior experience with Flash, Actionscript and XML-based language to good use and learn how to use the Flex 3 platform to create rich Internet and Apollo applications. Understand the potential of the Flex 3 platform through practical examples and hands-on advice on topics like developing applications in MXML, creating custom flex components, charting, targeting Apollo runtime, and data interconnectivity. In addition, this book addresses the ways that you can contribute to the development of Flex 3, which is open source.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Introduction to Flex 3 | |
| Why Flex? | |
| The Flex 3 Ecosystem | |
| ActionScript 3.0 Fundamentals | |
| Using ActionScript 3.0 | |
| Introduction to Flex Builder 3 | |
| Developing with Flex 3 | |
| Using Flex Builder 3 | |
| MXML Fundamentals | |
| Developing with Flex Builder 3 | |
| Customizing Flex Builder 3 | |
| Working with Components | |
| The Component Life Cycle and Class Hierarchy | |
| Using Data Binding and Events | |
| User Interface Controls and Containers | |
| Layout Strategies | |
| User Interface Integration | |
| Getting Started with AIR | |
| Advanced Component Development | |
| Custom ActionScript Components | |
| Custom MXML Components | |
| Extending Flex Components | |
| Advanced Event Programming | |
| State Management | |
| Using Libraries | |
| Visual Effects and Multimedia | |
| Styles | |
| Skinning and Themes | |
| Visual Effects | |
| Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API | |
| Flash Integration | |
| Loading External Assets | |
| Video and Sound | |
| Advanced Flash Integration | |
| Data Management | |
| Working with Data | |
| Formatters and Validators | |
| Using the List Components | |
| Advanced Data Controls | |
| Drag and Drop in Flex | |
| Drag and Drop in AIR | |
| Using the Charting Components | |
| Resource Bundles and Data Localization | |
| Client Communications | |
| Browser Communication in Flex | |
| HTML Mashups with AIR | |
| Deep Linking | |
| System Interactions in Flex | |
| Native Desktop Support with AIR | |
| LocalConnection and Shared Objects | |
| File Management with Flex | |
| Local File Management with AIR | |
| Server Integration | |
| Introduction to RPC Services | |
| Error Handling | |
| Flex and Flash Media Server | |
| RESTful Web Services with Flex and the Zend Framework | |
| Integrating Flex and Java | |
| Web Services with .NET and Flex | |
| Offline Data Access with AIR | |
| Data Services | |
| Introduction to LCDS | |
| LCDS and ColdFusion | |
| The Message Service | |
| The Data Management Service | |
| Advanced Data Management Services | |
| The Data Services Stress Testing Framework | |
| Using BlazeDS | |
| Using Cairngorm | |
| MVC Frameworks | |
| Introduction to Cairngorm | |
| Applied Cairngorm | |
| Advanced Cairngorm | |
| Application Development Strategies | |
| Best Practices | |
| The Security Model | |
| Modular Application Development | |
| Application Performance Strategies | |
| Project Documenting with ASDoc | |
| Desktop Deployment with AIR | |
| Dual Deployment for Flex and AIR | |
| Testing and Debugging | |
| Debugging Flex Applications | |
| Using the Flex Profiler | |
| Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development with FlexUnit | |
| The Logging Framework | |
| The Automation Framework | |
| ActionScript Language Comparison | |
| Index | |
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