Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex - Transcript

Adobe Flex 2 0
By Axel J ensen

Table of Contents
Evolution of Computer Applications Advantages of Rich Internet Applications RIA Different RIA Technologies at the current moment Flex Builder 2 0 1 Brief MXML Execution process Examples

Understanding RIA
Evolution of Computer Applications
Mainframes Desktop Client Server Apps Web Applications Rich Internet Applications
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Advantages of RIA
Typically more user friendly
businessManagers
Making it easier for users to work with software
Making more productive software means reducing labor costs while growing sales

itOrganizations endUsers
Break away from page base architectures reduces the load on web servers and overall network traffic

RIA Technologies
Ajax Flash
Asynchronous J avascript and XML Originally made to run animations flash has evolved over the years and is used for all sorts of programming Games Fancy Animations Applications Developer friendly tools for building RIA create applications to run in the flash player Uses Actionscript 3 0

Laszlo Flex

Object Oriented languages that pushes the capabilities of the F lash platform

RIA Technologies cont
Flash Player 9
Focuses on improving script execution
Uses AVM actionscript virtual machine
Rebuilt from the ground up to work with actionscript 3 0 Error handling has severely increased

Flex Builder 2
Tool to design applications specifically built for RIAs Built on the Eclipse platform

Things to cover
Flex Builder 2
Create a new mxml Application Perspective Button Open
Run Button Source Design Buttons

Code Editor Navigator View

Problems Debug

Things to cover cont
Application execution
Create a new mxml Application
MXML

ActionScript

Client with Flash Player

SWF

Now for some examples
Introduction to creating projects in flex builder Build a hello world App Using ArrayCollections and or XML to do mock up s Build a to do list Show examples