Flex 4 training course

Course Outline

Adobe Flex is a wide-reaching platform for the development and deployment of rich internet applications. Flex 3 is essentially an evolution that started with Flash and ActionScript, to become an enterprise-class framework for delivering business and entertainment data-driven applications.

Flex Data Services include modules which handle XML-based messaging, data capture, business process management, document generation (PDF, Many MS Office formats, AUTOCAD, JPG and so forth), Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Course Content

This course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus.If you have a technical question, please email [email protected]

Adobe Flex 3 Development Training Course Outline

Introduction

• What is a Rich Internet Application?
• How Adobe Flex fits in
• Intro to Adobe Flex Builder
• Brief history of Flash
• Flex Application Process Flow
• remote data resource connectivity

Familiarisation with Flex

• Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Flex Builder
• The Flex Builder interface
• Starting a project and creating your first application
• Debugging applications
• How to get help in Adobe Flex Builder

Flex Basics

• Hello World
• Displaying images
• Layout using containers
• Panel containers
• ControlBar containers
• Including user interface controls
• Data bindings
• MXML component architecture
• MXML component properties and methods

Event handling

• What is an event?
• Using inline ActionScript to create event handlers
• Event handling inside ActionScript functions
• Placing ActionScript functions in external files
•  Event objects
• addEventListener() method

Familiarisation with Flex

• Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Flex Builder
• The Flex Builder interface
• Starting a project and creating your first application
• Debugging applications
• How to get help in Adobe Flex Builder

Flex Basics

• Hello World
• Displaying images
• Layout using containers
• Panel containers
• ControlBar containers
• Including user interface controls
• Data bindings
• MXML component architecture
• MXML component properties and methods

Event handling

• What is an event?
• Using inline ActionScript to create event handlers
• Event handling inside ActionScript functions
• Placing ActionScript functions in external files
•  Event objects
• addEventListener() method

Constraint-Based Layout

• Absolute positioning
• Canvas container
• constraint-based layout using Flex Builder or MXML
• Enhanced Constraints
• Constraint-based layouts within nested containers

Using View States for Application Design

• What are view states?
• Controlling view states
• Reviewing the generated MXML code
• Creating view states that include custom component states

Creating Application Navigation

• Understanding navigator containers and controls
• LinkBar control
• TabBar control
• ViewStack container
• TabNavigator container
• Accordion container
• Using ButtonBar & ToggleButtonBar
• ApplicationControlBar container

Customising your Application

• Customising Flex application look and feel
• Modifying Styles to change look-and-feel
• Using Themes
• Applying behaviours to components
• Applying transitions to view state changes

ActionScript Data Models

• MVC design pattern
• Creating an MXML data model
• Using ActionScript classes as a data model
• Creating an ActionScript constructor with parameters
• Defining class methods

Exchanging Data Between Components Using Custom Events

• Understanding the problem with bindings
• Creating custom events
• Sending data with a custom event

Creating Data Entry Forms

• Form container
• Sharing Form Data
• Validating form data
• Triggering validation with events
• Triggering validation with ActionScript

Retrieving XML Data with HTTPService

• Retrieving XML data at runtime
• Handling results
• Handling results using an event handler
• Handling faults
• Making HTTP requests to different domains
• Making HTTP requests with parameters

DataGrid How-to and Best Practises

• DataGrid control
• Specifying DataGrid columns
• Formatting DataGrid columns
• Using item renderers and item editors
• Inline item renderers and item editors
• Item renderer and item editor components
• TileList and HorizontalList
• Using events and selected items with list-based components

Accessing Web Services

• Using web services
• Invoking web service methods and using the results
• Handling results using an event handler
• Walkthrough 2: Using a result event
• Handling faults
• Calling multiple methods from the same WebService object
• Passing Parameters to Web Services
• Importing Web Services in Flex Builder

Introduction to LiveCycle Data Services ES

• Introducing LiveCycle Data Services ES
• Installing LiveCycle Data Services
• Creating a Flex application for use with LiveCycle Data Services
• Understanding the Server Compilation Process
• LiveCycle Data Services Features
• The Proxy Service
• The Proxy Service Default Destination
• Named Proxy Service Destinations
• Using BlazeDS

Using Java Classes with the Remoting Service

• Understanding the Remoting Service
• Handling RPC Events
• Complex Remote Method Calls
• Exchanging Data between ActionScript and Java
• Handling Server-Side Exceptions
• Remoting Service Runtime Configuration

Managing Data on the Client

• Understanding collection classes
• Filtering data on the client
• Sorting data on the client
• Using the IViewCursor interface

Using the Message Service

• Introducing the Message Service
• Sending Messages
• Receiving and Processing Messages
• Sending and Receiving Complex Data

Using the Data Management Service

• What is the Flex Data Management Service?
• Data Management Service Architecture
• Changing Data
• Managing Pending Changes
• Using Data Management Service Events
• Advanced Data Management Service Features

Providing XML to Controls with E4X

• Understanding XML structure
• Working with XML data in ActionScript 3
• Using E4X Expressions
• Using the Tree control
• Using Tree Control Events and Properties
• Using E4X Expressions for Search
• Removing Items from XML

Uploading Files to a Server

• Implementing file transfer basics
• Uploading a file

Overview of Developing AIR rich clients

• What is the Adobe Integrated Runtime - AIR?
• Flex Programming Elements
• User Interfaces
• Advanced Flex Programming
• Data Access and Interconnectivity
• Application Design
• Application Development
• Application Deployment
• Custom Component Development
• MXML Custom Components
• ActionScript Custom Components
• Non-visual Custom Components
• Using Flex Builder 3 to develop AIR applications with Flex
• Programming ActionScript 3.0
• Flex ActionScript Language Reference