Book description
Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3, you will:
- Walk through sample RIA projects and see examples of amazing applications people have built with Flex
- Work with ActionScript 3.0 and the MXML markup language
- Build user interfaces using the controls and tools available with the framework
- Get a tour of controls available commercially and through open source
- Learn how Flex integrates with ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and J2EE in the server
- Build Flex-based widgets that let you display real-time data
- Use advanced controls to build 3D graphs, data dashboards, mapping applications, and more
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Installing Flex Builder 3
- 2. Flex in Action
- 3. Flex 101: Step by Step
- 4. Flex Controls and Layout
- 5. Working with the Server
- 6. More Flex Applications
- 7. Advanced Flex Controls
- 8. Flex for Widgets
- 9. Flex on AIR
- 10. Resources for Flex Developers
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Flex 3
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2008
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596520649
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