PacktLib: Flex 3 with Java

Flex 3 with Java

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Installing and Configuring Adobe Flex

Installing open source Flex 3 SDK

Installing Flex Builder 3

Creating a Flex project

Introduction to Flex 3 Framework

Compiling and running an application

Using events in MXML

Creating custom events

Validating and formatting data

Creating MXML custom components

Understanding Flex itemRenderers

Introduction to ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript 3.0 language features

ActionScript 3.0 fundamentals

Using ActionScript 3.0 with MXML

Working with events

Using External API and LocalConnection

Using External API

Using LocalConnection

Working with XML

Understanding E4X

Loading external XML documents

An example: Building a book explorer

Overview of LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS

LiveCycle Data Services

BlazeDS vs LiveCycle Data Services

Flex Data Access Methods

Flex data access components

Communicating with Server-side Java

The HTTPService class

Debugging Techniques

Flash Debug Player

Styling your Application

Using inline styles

Using external CSS files

Loading stylesheets at runtime

Packaging and Deployment

Packaging your application

Using Flex Ant Tasks

Deploying your application

Internationalization and Localization

Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)

Localization of Flex applications

Creating an E-commerce Application

The general anatomy of the application

Let's start coding