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Flex Training

Flex Training Objective

Learn how to develop rich internet applications using the Flex framework.

Flex Training Prerequisites

Programming experience in some programming language

Flex Training Course duration

5 Days

Flex Training Course outline

Overview
- Web runtime landscape
  - Flash Player
  - DHTML/AJAX
  - Java Plugin
  - Silverlight
- The Flash Player
  - SWF files
  - ActionScript
  - Core libraries
  - Static and Dynamic Linking
  - 4 ways to create swf's
    - Flash IDE
    - Flex Compiler
    - Open Laszlo
    - Other
- Tools for Flex Development
  - Flash Player
    - Standard and debug versions
    - Stand-alone and browser plugins
  - The Flex Framework
    - An ActionScript Library
      - UI Widgets - built on top of lower level Flash libraries
      - Other libraries
    - MXML
      - Gets translated to ActionScript
      - Two ways to do the same thing
        
        ActionScript or MXML
      - MXML-only components
    - Compiler
  - Flex Builder
    - Eclipse plug-in
    - Stand-alone
  - IntelliJ
Quick Start
- Simplest possible Flex application
  - Extending Application
  - Vertical Layout
  - Button
  - Alert
ActionScript and MXML Quick Start
- Dynamic objects
  - Creating objects
    - new Object()
    - Constructor function
    - Object literal
    - mx:Object tag
  - Property access: obj.prop
  - Square bracket property access: obj["prop"]
  - Properties of type Function
  - ObjectProxy
    - IEventDispatcher
    - mx:Model tag
      - In-line and from file)
- Arrays
  - new Array()
  - Array literals
  - for each
  - ArrayCollection
    - IEventDispatcher
    - Added functionality
    - Sorting
    - Filtering
- JSON
  - Object literals
  - Array literals
- Classes (sealed objects)
  - Packages
  - Creating objects
    - AS3
    - MXML
    - Dynamic keyword
  - Function Properties
- XML Processing
  - The XML Object
    - Creating an XML Object
      - XML Literal
      - XML String constructor
      - mx:XMLTag in-line
        
        In-line
        
        From file
    - Accessing child elements and attributes
      - Single element
      - Repeating elements
      - Attributes
    - Filtering
  - XMLList
  - XMLListCollection
- Reflection
  - describeType
  - for in
  - Square brackets
- Functions as Objects
  - Functions as variables
  - Functions as dynamic properties
  - Functions as sealed properties
- Exception handling
  - Synch
  - Asynch
Layouts and Containers
- Absolute
- VBox/HBox
- HDividedBox/VDividedBox
- Form
- Grid
- Tile
- TabNavigator
Basic UI Components
- UIComponent
- Label
- Text
- InputText
- Button
- TextArea
- RichTextEditor
Event handling
- MXML Event handlers
- ActionScript event handlers
- Event objects
- callLater()
UIComponent
- Component Hierarchy
- Component Lifecycle
- Common properties, methods and events
MVC and Data Binding
- Binding
  - Binding MXML Element
  - Two way binding
  - Binding with curly braces
  - Binding with ActionScript
- MVC
  - Binding to model classes
  - [Bindable]
  - ObjectProxy
  - Manually sending PropertyChangingEvents
- Binding's pitfalls
Data-Driven Components
- List
- ComboBox
- DataGrid
- Tree
- Table
- ItemRender
- ItemEditor
- Repeater
- Menus
Forms
- Form Layout
- Validation
- Formatting
- Custom Validators and Formatters
Windows and Popups
- PopupManager
- TitleWindow
- Passing data between windows
- Modal
- Non-blocking
Custom Components
- MXML Components
- In-line MXML Component
- ActionScript
Styles
- In-line
- Style Tag
- External Style
Back-end Data Services
- SOAP versus REST Services
- Async Call Backs
- Calling SOAP Web Services
  - WSDL Overview
  - SOAP Overview
  - WebService Tag
  - Operations
  - Masked Error Messages
  - Using ActionScript to call web services
  - Static Proxies
    - WSDL2ActionScript
    - Hand generated proxy classes
- Calling REST Services
  - HttpService Tag
  - Processing XML
- Security
- Transactions
  - Unit of work
  - Offline transactions
    - Timestamp
    - Versioning
  - Long running (offline) transactions
  - State model for dirty tracking
- Architectural Patterns
  - SOFEA
  - REST
  - Re-use versus user experience
  - Server-side versus client-side
Projects
- Black Jack Game
- Product Catalog
- Shopping Cart