Flex 4 and LiveCycle Data Services 3 Training Course

Introduction

• Course format
• Reviewing the course prerequisites
• Reviewing the course outline

• Using web services
  • Process for calling web services
• Invoking web service methods and using the results
  • Invoking the methods on a web service
  • Understanding ArrayCollection class results
  • Using web service results
• Handling results using an event handler
  • Using the results event handler
• Handling faults
  • Creating fault event handlers
  • Displaying faults with an Alert pop-up
• Calling multiple methods from the same WebService object
  • Using the <s:operation> tag
• Passing parameters to web services
• Passing parameters to a web service explicitly
• Passing parameters to a web service using parameter binding

• Introducing LCDS / BlazeDS
  • Surveying the LCDS feature set
  • Introducing BlazeDS
  • Compare and contrast LCDS and Blaze DS
• Understanding the Remoting Service
  • The Remoting Service and AMF
  • Configuring a Remoting Service destination
  • Using <s:RemoteObject>
  • Accessing data from a remote method
• Handling RPC events
  • Handling successful remote calls
  • Handling faults in remote calls
• Complex remote method calls
  • Handling events of multiple methods
  • Passing parameters
• Type conversion during data transfer between ActionScript and Java
  • Converting data from Java to ActionScript
  • Converting data from ActionScript to Java
  • Converting custom object types
• Managing RemoteObject events using AsyncToken
  • Understanding dynamic classes
• Remoting Service Runtime Configuration
  • Selecting a channel at runtime

• Understanding collection classes
  • Collection features
  • Collection interfaces
  • Specific collection classes
• Filtering data on the client
  • Creating the filter function
  • Using the function
• Sorting data on the client
  • Understanding the sort classes
  • Process for sorting data
  • Simple sorting example
  • Complex sorting example
• Using the IViewCursor interface
  • Cursor operations
  • Creating and using the cursor
  • Code examples

• Introducing the message service
  • Creating a messaging destination
• Sending messages
  • Creating a messaging producer
  • Using the AsyncMessage class
  • Tracing message traffic
• Receiving and processing messages
  • Creating a messaging consumer
  • Subscribing and unsubscribing to a destination
  • Receiving messages
• Sending and receiving complex data
  • Implementing message filtering
  • Using selectors
  • Using subtopics

• Using logging
  • Logging on the client
• Running the debugger
  • Using breakpoints
• Introducing the profiler
  • Introducing Flash Player garbage collection
  • Profiling an application
  • Using memory profiling
• Monitoring Flex RPC network traffic
  • Using the Network Monitor

• Introducing model driven development using LCDS 3
  • LCDS model driven development benefits
  • Comparing code- and model-driven development
  • Preparing to use model driven development
  • Setup details
• Creating and using the data model
  • Table joins representation in the model
  • Modeling language
  • Editing generated ActionScript value objects
  • Flash Builder functionality for MDD
• Adding properties to the model
  • Creating a derived property
  • Updating changes to the database schema
  • Creating a method to calculate a derived property
• Using styles in a form
  • Implementing validation through styles
  • Using styles to change other form behaviors
  • Using global styles
• Filtering returned data
  • Implementing a filter

• Creating conditional properties with variants
  • Implementing the variant in Flash Builder
  • Selector expression
  • Case
  • Substructure
• Using resource bundles for localization
  • Creating property files
  • Compiling resources into the application
  • Selecting a locale
• Altering the form generator template
  • Extracting the client-side templates
• Generating the server side Java