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Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex

Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex. Raghunath Rao Engineer, Flex Team Bangalore, India http://raghuonflex.wordpress.com/. Introduction to Flex. Global. 2004. WEB APPLICATIONS. RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS. 1998. REACH. 1992. CLIENT/SERVER. MAINFRAME. Local.

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Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex

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  1. Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex Raghunath Rao Engineer, Flex Team Bangalore, India http://raghuonflex.wordpress.com/

  2. Introduction to Flex

  3. Global 2004 WEB APPLICATIONS RICH INTERNETAPPLICATIONS 1998 REACH 1992 CLIENT/SERVER MAINFRAME Local RICH Text UI Integrated media GUI Experience evolution: Building the new frontier • HTML Deficiencies • Page metaphor • Only 6 UI controls • Browser inconsistencies • Press n’ pray printing • Request-only data • No offline operation • Bitmaps from the server • A/V plug-in hell • Client/Server Benefits • Screen metaphor • Extensible UI libraries • Online/offline + synch • WYSIWYG printing • Data visualization • Live data connectivity • Bitmap/vector graphics • Integrated A/V

  4. Why RIA? “In Web1.0 Data was Dictator, In Web2.0 User is King and Data is Queen”

  5. Anatomy of a Rich Internet Application Menus & NavigationControls Bi-Directional Audio & Video Data Visualization & Collaboration Real Time Data Push & Alerting Resizable Views/Effects/ Transitions Chat Rich Data Entry Mapping, Geo-Coding, Annotations & White boarding Data Synchronization & Conflict Resolution Offline

  6. Where Flex is Used Line of Business Applications Product Configuration Data Visualization Complex, Multi-Step Processes Product Selection Rich Media Applications

  7. .swf .swf How Flex works… Flex Builder IDE Browser Flash Player Flex SDK MXML ActionScript Flex Class Library Web Server Compile

  8. Flex Builder Flash Player 9 Design View Code Hinting Debugging Component Skinning Flex SDK Flex Data Services Messaging Service Data Management Service RPC Services Flex/Ajax Bridge What Do I need? FREE FREE FREE

  9. Demos • Dashboard Application • Flex Store • Home Locator • FlexBook • Demo 1 • Demo 2

  10. Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex

  11. flex.org • One stop shop! • Run by the community • http://flex.org • Online Compiler - http://try.flex.org • Test Drives for Developers from other technologies • Many More…

  12. Adobe -Flex Developer Center • http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ • Run by Adobe • Quick Starts • What to look out for? • Quick starts • Tutorials • Flex CookBook (common coding problems)

  13. Handy Apps • Flex Component Explorer • Flex Style Explorer

  14. Video Tutorials • http://video.onflex.org/

  15. Flex Training • Online • http://www.totaltraining.com/ • http://www.lynda.com/

  16. Custom Components • Flex Exchange • Run by Adobe • Contribution from both Adobe and the Community • Commercial, Free & Open Source components • 3dChart Component • Auto Complete

  17. Custom Components • as3corelib (on Google Code) • Hashing • Encryption • JSON conversion • Image Encoders • Etc… • Doug’s Snapshot Creator

  18. Custom Components • Others • Flexlib (on Google Code) • FlexBox (by Mrinal) • RIAForge (Open source projects built on Adobe technologies) • as3crypto library

  19. Where do I go with my problems and get them solved? • Public Bugbase • Flex Coders on Yahoo Groups • Regional Flex Groups • Flex-India on Google Groups • Regional FUGs (Flex User Groups)

  20. Blogs to Bookmark • Ely Greenfield • Doug Mccune • Alex Harui • scalenine.com

  21. Q&A

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