Flex 4 Jumpstart - zero to Hero

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zero to Flex Hero in just 5 days!


The most popular Flex Training Course in the country.


This is a FIVE day Academy Class and one day deep hands-on introduction to developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the Adobe Flash Platform using the Adobe Flex 4 framework. Emphasised topics include:



  • Custom components and layout control

  • Handling and extending events

  • Validating and formatting data

  • Navigation, animation, and visual state control

  • Text and style control

  • Spark component skinning

  • Introduction to remote data access

  • Working with typed data in DataGroup and DataGrid components

  • Deploying Flex applications over the web and on AIR


The Flex training coruse instructs developers about Integrating Data and Messaging with SOAP, REST, BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services

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Day 1



  • Introducing Flash Builder and the Flex SDK

  • Creating our first project

  • Prototyping an application in design view

  • Introducing forms, the form components and validation

  • Data providers, array collections and data binding

  • Breaking content down into components

  • Adding navigation to the application with the view stack

  • Modularising our design to promote performance and flexibility

  • Changing content at runtime using view states

  • Extending state changes with transitions


Day 2



  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in a Flex context

  • Modularising our CSS and exploring Actionscript 3 & event handling

  • Customising the standard preloader and offloading the CSS load routine

  • Using Adobe Flash content and custom components in our applications

  • Customising the Module Loader to add flash animation

  • Introducing the new Flex 4 Spark component set

  • Exploring the skinning model

  • Creating and implementing a custom skin with MXML and FXG

  • Our first look at retrieving data dynamically and displaying it in different forms


Day 3



  • Sourcing our data dynamically and separating the tasks into individual components

  • The singleton design pattern and building a data model

  • Displaying data in a Data Grid and customising the output with label Functions and item Renderers

  • Presenting our data more visually using the Tile List and Data Group

  • The importance of Strong Typing and Value Objects

  • Creating custom events to communicate between components

  • Using data binding to display detail for a selected item

  • Visualising data with the charting components

  • Using the Popup Manager to reveal modal dialog boxes

  • Finalising a Release Build and deploying your Flex Application


Day 4



  • Installing the Web Application Server and BlazeDS

  • Creating a project in a server based environment

  • Interacting with SOAP web services to request and submit data

  • The BlazeDS proxy service to integrate disparate systems

  • Restful web services and Flash Builder 4

  • Java Remoting, AMF and BlazeDS

  • Hibernate and Spring integration

  • Using the messaging service to implement a simple chat tool

  • Comparing LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS

  • Implementing LCDS on our web application server

  • Live messaging with RTMP

  • Flex <→ LiveCycle Integration

  • Introducing Data Management Services and editable grids


Day 5



  • Version control in Flash Builder 4

  • The Model View Controller design pattern and the Cairngorm Framework

  • Creating the key elements of the framework

  • Value Objects and the importance of strong typing

    Building custom events and commands

  • The role of the front controller

  • Service integration with delegates, responders and asynctokens

  • Displaying our results visually

  • Enabling filtering through interaction, events and commands

  • Event driven Master-Detail sets

  • Grouping Collections and Client Side Analysis

  • Deploying the release build of your application

Guide Price: £1097 ex VAT