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Professional Adobe Flex 2

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Wrox's Professional Flex 2 is one of the first guides to Adobe's (Macromedia's) new web application development platform. Flex experts Simon Barber, Rich Tretola and John Bennett share their experience with Flex 2, and teach readers how to leverage the platform to build rich internet applications. Professional Flex 2 relies heavy on practical examples, making this a hands-on guide that will get readers up and running with Flex 2 quickly. Topics include: Building applications with Flex Builder Flex programming model Using Actionscript 3.0 Developing applications in MXML Creating UIs with Flex controls and containers Data access and interconnectivity Creating custom flex components Charting Testing, debugging and deploying Flex applications and more If you want to learn how to create robust, scalable applications using the power of Flex 2, then this is the book for you. This book walks you through all aspects of this powerful software and shows you how to build your own custom components. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the Software Development Kit (SDK), Flex Data Services (FDS), Flex Builder 2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Flex Charting, and much more. Integrated throughout the pages, you'll find best practices that will enable you to begin developing and deploying applications in Flex 2 that meet your requirements. You'll also discover the most effective ways to use frameworks, MXML, and ActionScript 3. And with the help of numerous practical examples that you can tweak and apply in your own environment, this hands-on guide will quickly get you quickly up and running. What you will learn from this book Steps for developing an application using Flex Builder How to build customized user interfaces with Flex controls and containers Ways to access data and chart components Tips for creating and extending Flex components Methods for programming and data typing ActionScript classes All about integrating Flex 2 with rich media and external applications How to use the Cairngorm framework, the Flex-Ajax bridge, ActionScript 3.0 libraries, and more Who this book is for This book is for programmers and Web developers who want to create Internet applications using Flex 2. You should have prior experience with Flash, ActionScript, and an XML-based language. Flex apps you'll develop in this book Learn to leverage Flex Builder 2 for RIA development Discover how you can use Flex Charting to visualize data Integrate your Flex applications with data from web applications like Flicker Learn to use rich media in Flex apps Wrox Professional guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments. Introduction.

Part I, Getting Started. Chapter 1, Introducing Flex 2.0. Chapter 2, Introducing Flex Builder 2.0. Chapter 3, Flex 2.0 Basics. Chapter 4, Using Flex Builder 2.0.

Part II, Developing in Flex 2.0. Chapter 5, Programming Languages. Chapter 6, Building User Interfaces. Chapter 7, Customizing The User Interface. Chapter 8, Flex UI Topics. Chapter 9, Flex Data. Chapter 10, Flex Charting. Chapter 11, Data Access.

Part Iii, Creating and Extending Flex Components. Chapter 12, Creating Mxml Components. Chapter 13, Flex Component Properties. Chapter 14, Flex Components. Chapter 15, Custom Formatter, Validator, and Effect Components.

Part IV, Programming Actionscript 3.0. Chapter 16, Overview of Actionscript Programming. Chapter 17, Data Types and Classes.

Part V, Building and Deploying Flex 2.0 Applications. Chapter 18, Building and Deploying Flex Applications. Chapter 19, Debugging and Testing. Chapter 20, Deploying Flex Applications.

Part VI, Advanced Flex 2.0. Chapter 21, Using The Cairgorm Framework. Chapter 22, Using The Flex-ajax Bridge. Chapter 23, Using The Actionscript 3.0 Libraries. Chapter 24, Using Coldfusion/flex Connectivity.

Part Vii, Integration Techniques. Chapter 25, Rich Media Integration. Chapter 26, Integration With External Applications. Appendix A. Flex 2.0.1. Index.

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