Flex Training : Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex

Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex provides professional developers conversant with object-oriented technologies hands-on practical experience using Flex. This three day course gets developers up and running with the primary features of Flex that they'll need to know in order to build a fully functional, and well architected, Rich Internet Application (RIA).

This course is for developers familiar with object-oriented technologies who wish to bring the power of Rich Internet Applications to their web applications. To gain the most from this class, you should:

• Be familiar with an object oriented programming language such as Java or C++
• Be familiar with XML terminology

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

• About the course
• Course objectives

Unit 2: Understanding Flex

• Understanding emerging rich Internet applications
• Introducing Flex
• Developing Flex applications
• Creating your first application

Unit 3: Getting Started

• Using controls
• Using containers
• Using bindings
• Creating MXML components

Unit 4: Handling Events

• Understanding events
• Handling events
• Using the event object

Unit 5: Using Controls

• Understanding controls
• Using text controls
• Displaying images
• Supplying data to controls

Unit 6: Managing Application Layout

• Laying out content with containers
• Controlling navigation with navigator containers
• Manipulating the size of containers with widhtFlex and heightFlex
• Manipulating the appearance of containers with styles

Unit 7: Using MXML Data Models

• Understanding Flex data modeling
• Creating data models with the tag
• Validating data
• Formatting data

Unit 8: Using ActionScript Data Models

• Defining ActionScript classes
• Creating properties of a model class
• Creating methods of a model class
• Creating an MXML formatter in ActionScript

Unit 9: Retrieving XML Data

• Understanding data retrieval in Flex
• Retrieving data with the Model tag
• Retrieving data with the HTTPService tag
• Creating named and unnamed HTTP Services
• Passing data structures to MXML components

Unit 10: Working with Data Sets

• Displaying data with the DataGrid control
• Displaying data with the Tile container
• Using the Repeater
• Accessing Repeater data

Unit 11: Exchanging Data Between Components

• Passing data to components
• Understanding best practices for exchanging data
• Exchanging data via events
• Defining custom events
• Dispatching custom events
• Handling custom events

Unit 12: Accessing Web Services and Remote Objects

• Using data from web services
• Using data from Java objects
• Configuring named services

Unit 13: Exchanging Objects Between ActionScript and Java

• Passing custom objects to Java classes
• Using _remoteClass

Unit 14: Implementing Drag and Drop

• Learning drag and drop terminology
• Using the dragEnabled property
• Understanding drag and drop event handlers
• Using formats to enable dropping
• Mouse properties and events