Flex 3 with Java Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring Adobe Flex
Chapter 2: Introduction to Flex 3 Framework
Chapter 3: Introduction to ActionScript 3.0
Chapter 4: Using External API and LocalConnection
Chapter 5: Working with XML
Chapter 6: Overview of LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS
Chapter 7: Flex Data Access Methods
Chapter 8: Communicating with Server-side Java
Chapter 9: Debugging Techniques
Chapter 10: Styling your Application
Chapter 11: Packaging and Deployment
Chapter 12: Internationalization and Localization
Chapter 13: Creating an E-commerce Application
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring Adobe Flex
  • Installing open source Flex 3 SDK
    • Installation directory structure
    • About configuration files
  • Flex compilers
    • Using compc—the component compiler
    • Using mxmlc—the application compiler
  • Installing Flex Builder 3
  • Creating a Flex project
    • UI designer and source code editor
    • Flex LiveDocs
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Introduction to Flex 3 Framework
  • How Flex works
  • Compiling and running an application
  • About MXML
    • Understanding namespaces
    • Using namespaces in your code
  • Containers
    • Layout manager
    • Layout containers
    • Using Box, HBox, and VBox containers
    • Navigator containers
    • Form containers
    • Constraint-based layout
  • Using events in MXML
  • Creating custom events
  • Validating and formatting data
    • Restricting user entry
    • Formatting
  • Data binding
    • Using the [Bindable] metadata tag
  • Creating MXML custom components
  • Understanding Flex itemRenderers
    • Drop-in itemRenderers
    • Inline itemRenderers
    • External itemRenderers
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Introduction to ActionScript 3.0
  • ActionScript 3.0 language features
    • Strict data typing
    • Runtime exceptions
    • Sealed classes and dynamic classes
    • Method closure
    • XML and E4X
    • New primitive data types
    • Regular expressions
    • Object-oriented programming
  • ActionScript 3.0 fundamentals
    • Variables
    • Access modifiers
    • Packages
    • Classes and interfaces
      • Classes
      • Interfaces
      • Implementing an interface in a class
      • Inheriting classes
    • Functions and methods
      • Named functions
      • Anonymous functions
      • Function parameters
    • Setter and getter methods
    • Flow control and looping
      • If/else statement
      • switch statement
      • Looping
    • Exceptions and error handling
      • try…catch…finally statements
      • Create your own custom Error class object
    • Reserved words and keywords
  • Using ActionScript 3.0 with MXML
    • Using the <mx:script> tag
    • Using the include directive
  • Working with events
    • Registering event handlers
    • Dispatching an event
    • About the target and currentTarget properties
    • Event propagation
      • Capturing phase
      • Targeting phase
      • Bubbling phase
    • Creating custom events
    • Creating and using ActionScript components
    • The commitProperties() method
    • The createChildren() method
    • The layoutChrome() method
    • The measure() method
    • The updateDisplayList() method
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Using External API and LocalConnection
  • Using External API
    • Using the ExternalInterface class
      • Getting information about external container
    • Calling JavaScript code from ActionScript
    • Calling ActionScript code from JavaScript
  • Using LocalConnection
    • Summary

• Chapter 5: Working with XML
  • XML basics
  • Understanding E4X
    • The XML object
    • The XMLList object
    • Working with XML objects
    • Using XML as dataProvider
  • Loading external XML documents
  • An example: Building a book explorer
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Overview of LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS
  • LiveCycle Data Services
  • BlazeDS
  • BlazeDS vs LiveCycle Data Services
    • LiveCycle Data Services
    • BlazeDS
    • Understanding AMF
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Flex Data Access Methods
  • Flex data access components
    • The HTTPService class
      • Using the HTTPService tag in MXML
      • An example of HTTPService
      • Using the HTTPService class in ActionScript
    • The WebService class
      • Using the WebService tag in MXML
      • An example of WebService
      • WSDL document
      • Using the WebService class in ActionScript
      • Working with SOAP headers
    • The RemoteObject class
      • Using the RemoteObject tag in MXML
      • An example of RemoteObject
      • Working with strongly-typed objects
    • Understanding the Flash Player security sandbox
      • Understanding the cross-domain policy file
      • Creating a proxy service
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Communicating with Server-side Java
  • The HTTPService class
    • Working with XML data
    • Working with JSON data
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Debugging Techniques
  • Flash Debug Player
    • Using client-side logging
    • Flex Builder Debugger
      • The Debug view
      • The Variables view
      • The Breakpoints view
      • The Expressions view
    • Network monitoring
      • ServiceCapture
      • Charles Web Debugging Proxy
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Styling your Application
  • Using inline styles
  • Using external CSS files
    • Creating and designing Cascading Style Sheets
  • Loading stylesheets at runtime
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Packaging and Deployment
  • Packaging your application
  • Using Flex Ant Tasks
  • Deploying your application
    • Flex deployment options
      • Using a single SWF file deployment
      • Using web-tier compilation
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Internationalization and Localization
  • Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)
    • Language
    • Assets
    • Culture
    • Time zones
  • Localization of Flex applications
    • Creating a resource file
    • Creating resource modules
  • Summary

• Chapter 13: Creating an E-commerce Application
  • The general anatomy of the application
  • Let's start coding
    • The Flex code
    • The Java code
      • Directories and files
  • Summary

• Index