Flex 4: Data and Messaging

Prerequisites:

This course is designed for application developers who want to connect their Flex font ends to dynamic data. To gain the most from this class, you should have attended the Flex 4- Developing Rich Client Applications course or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Description:

Flex 4: Data and Communications provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience connecting their Flex font ends to remote, dynamic data using Flex Data Services.

This two day course instructs developers how to connect with remote data using web services and Flex Data Services' features allowing communication with a Java backend. In addition, skills will be learned how to manipulate and format the returned data.

This course includes the following modules:

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