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