Introducing the Course

• Introducing mastery learning
• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course prerequisites
• Reviewing the course outline

Accessing Web Services

• 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

Using Remote Object Connections

• 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

• 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

Managing Data on the Client

• 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

  Using the Message Service

  • 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 Flash Builder Development Tools

      • 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

      Developing applications using model driven development

      • 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

      Implementing Advanced Model Driven Development Techniques

      • 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