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next generation e-learning with flex

next generation e-learning with flex. Christophe Herreman Application Architect @ Indie Group www.herrodius.com www.indiegroup.be. What is Edumatic?. authoring tool for exercises and tests online/offline intelligent feedback wide range of exercise types framework: AS2 and AS3

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next generation e-learning with flex

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  1. next generation e-learning with flex Christophe Herreman Application Architect @ Indie Group www.herrodius.com www.indiegroup.be

  2. What is Edumatic? • authoring tool for exercises and tests • online/offline • intelligent feedback • wide range of exercise types • framework: AS2 and AS3 www.edumatic.be

  3. Edumatic Clients

  4. Workflow overview Team Lead Architects Product Man. Developers QA / Testing Test deploy Source Code Repository Release deploy Build Server

  5. Flex • Cross platform Flash Player development • Does not replace Flash! • MXML, ActionScript 3.0 • Free SDK, Open Source by early 2008 • Flex Builder (Standalone or Eclipse Plugin) www.adobe.com/products/flex

  6. Why choose Flex? • Faster development (compared to Flash) • Built-in layout managers • MXML (declarative layouts) • Data binding • ActionScript 3.0 • Flash Player 9 / AVM2

  7. WebORB • Flash Remoting (.net, java, php, ruby) • AMF0/AMF3 protocols • Free standard edition • Painless integration with server backend • Fast, fast, fast and... fast! www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb

  8. Cairngorm • Flex application framework • Patterns based • De facto standard, maintained by Adobe labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm

  9. Prana • ActionScript 3.0 • Inversion of Control (IoC, based on Spring) • Reflection API • Cairngorm app configuration • Several utilities www.pranaframework.org

  10. FlexUnit • Unit testing for ActionScript 3.0 • GUI Test Runner • FlexUnit ant tasks for Continuous Integration http://code.google.com/p/as3flexunitlib

  11. Ant - Java based build tool, like batch scripts - Integrated in Eclipse - Lots of core tasks - Custom tasks (e.g. Flex ant tasks) http://ant.apache.org

  12. CruiseControl • Continuous build process • Plugins: mail, svn, ant, ... • Web dashboard, desktop client http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net

  13. eXtreme Programming • Small iterations (1 week) • Daily builds and deployment (Cruise Control) • Test Driven Development (FlexUnit) • Stand up meetings www.extremeprogramming.org

  14. Questions?

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