Flex Training: Advanced Adobe Flex 3

Course Number: FLX-103
GSA/Previous Course Number: 377
Duration: 4 days
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Advanced Flex 3 Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced Adobe Flex 3 training teaches attendees advanced Flex development techniques for building richer, more interactive, more robust applications.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=flex.

Advanced Flex 3 Training Prerequisites

Accelebrate's Introduction to Adobe Flex 3 course or equivalent experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Advanced Flex 3 Training Materials

All students will receive a copy of Adobe Press' Adobe® Flex® 3 Training from the Source and related course materials.

Software Needed on Each PC

Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0 or later
Eclipse 3.2.2 or later
Adobe Flex Builder 3 or later
Flash Player 9 or later
Flex 3 SDK

For further details on these requirements, please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/systemreqs/.

Advanced Flex 3 Training Objectives

All attendees will learn how to:

Customize the look and feel of a Flex application
Access server-side objects
Present data with Flex charting components
Create modular Flex applications
Deploy your Flex applications
Create transitions and behaviors
Print from Flex
Use Shared Objects for state maintenance
Debug Flex applications
Profile Flex applications

Advanced Flex 3 Training Outline

Customizing the Look and Feel of a Flex Application

Applying a Design with Styles and Skins
Applying Styles
Changing CSS at Runtime
Skinning Components

Working with Web Services

Introducing Server Communication
Using the Event Model Remote Server Calls
Configuring an Application to Work Locally
Using a Web Service in the Dashboard
Using a Web Service in the DataEntry Application
Using the Web Service Introspection Wizard
Using the Generated Code in Your Application
Refactoring with Flex Builder
Completing the Integration of the Generated Code
Updating and Deleting Products

Accessing Server-Side Objects

Uploading Files to the Server
Using RemoteObject to Save an Order
Mapping ActionScript Objects to Server Objects
The Flex Builder Data Wizards

Visualizing Data

Exploring Flex Charting Components
Laying Out Initial Charts
Populating Charts
Adding Legends to Charts
Limiting the Labels Shown on an Axis
Interacting with Charts
Adding Chart Events
Adding Animations to Charts
Customizing Chart Appearance with Styles

Creating Modular Applications

Introducing Modular Applications in Flex 3
Using Flex Modules
Understanding Runtime Shared Libraries (RSLs)
Using the Flex Framework RSL Caching
Creating a Library Project

Deploying Flex Applications

Compiling a Deployment Version of Your Application
Breaking Out of the Browser with the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Creating an AIR Application

Creating Transitions and Behaviors

Introducing Behaviors and Transitions
Implementing Effects on a Component
Adding Effects to View States

Printing from Flex

Introducing Flex Printing
Printing for the First Time from Flex
Using the PrintDataGrid in a Nonvisible Container
Building the Printable View in a Separate Component
Scaling the Printed Output
Printing a Receipt from the Checkout Process

Using Shared Objects

Introducing Shared Objects
Building a SharedObject to Store Shopping Cart Data
Reading Data from an Existing Shared Object

Debugging Flex Applications

Introducing Debugging Techniques
Watching Client/Server Data Exchange
Learning More About the Debugger
Handling Errors with try-catch

Profiling Flex Applications

Flash Player Memory Use
Memory Profiling a Flex Application
Performance Profiling a Flex Application

Conclusion

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