Flex 3 with Java Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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