Flex 2 Advanced: Using Data Services

As shown in David Gassner's previous titles, Flex 2 Essential Training and Flex 2 Beyond the Basics, the purpose of Flex is to manage four key challenges in web development: Multistep processing, client-side processing, data manipulation, and data visualization. With the addition of Flex Data Services, Flex 2 has become an even more powerful tool for building data-driven web and standalone applications. In Flex 2 Advanced: Using Data Services, David discusses the program s possibilities thoroughly from using Java Enterprise Edition to building a working database. It is recommended that people new to Adobe Flex 2 first view Flex 2 Essential Training and Flex 2 Beyond the Basics. Exercise files accompany the training.

Topics Include:

• Installing and starting Flex Data Services
• Creating a project in Flex Builder
• Using the Proxy Service
• Creating and using Java classes
• Building transfer objects in Java and ActionScript
• Configuring a messaging application
• Sending, receiving, and filtering messages
• Using and debugging the Data Management Service

Duration: 5.25 hours
On 1 CD-ROM