Course Schedule

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Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• 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
• Walkthrough 1: Consuming a web service
• Handling results using an event handler
• Using the results event handler
• Walkthrough 2: Using a result event
• Handling faults
• Creating fault event handlers
• Displaying faults with an Alert pop-up
• Walkthrough 3: Using a fault event
• Calling multiple methods from the same WebService object
• Using the <s:operation> tag
• Walkthrough 4: Using <s:operation> compiler tags
• Passing parameters to web services
• Passing parameters to a web service explicitly
• Passing parameters to a web service using parameter binding
• Walkthrough 5: Passing values to a web service

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
• Walkthrough 1: Invoking a remote method through a local RemoteObject proxy
• Handling RPC events
• Handling successful remote calls
• Handling faults in remote calls
• Walkthrough 2: Handling RemoteObject result and fault events
• Complex remote method calls
• Handling events of multiple methods
• Passing parameters
• Walkthrough 3: Specifying method-specific handlers and 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
• Walkthrough 4: Sending value objects with a remote method call
• Managing RemoteObject events using AsyncToken
• Understanding dynamic classes
• Walkthrough 5: Handling RemoteObject events using AsyncToken
• Remoting Service Runtime Configuration
• Selecting a channel at runtime
• Walkthrough 6: Configuring the channel for a destination 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
• Walkthrough 1: Filtering Data on the Client
• Sorting data on the client
• Understanding the sort classes
• Process for sorting data
• Simple sorting example
• Complex sorting example
• Walkthrough 2: Sorting data
• Using the IViewCursor interface
• Cursor operations
• Creating and using the cursor
• Code examples
• Walkthrough 3: Locating Data with a Cursor

Using the Message Service

• Introducing the message service
• Creating a messaging destination
• Walkthrough 1: Reviewing message destination configuration
• Sending messages
• Creating a messaging producer
• Using the AsyncMessage class
• Tracing message traffic
• Walkthrough 2: Sending messages
• Receiving and processing messages
• Creating a messaging consumer
• Subscribing and unsubscribing to a destination
• Receiving messages
• Walkthrough 3: Receiving and processing a message
• Sending and receiving complex data
• Walkthrough 4: Sending and Receiving Complex Data
• Implementing message filtering
• Using selectors
• Using subtopics
• Walkthrough 5: Implementing message filters

Using Flash Builder Development Tools

• Using logging
• Logging on the client
• Running the debugger
• Using breakpoints
• Walkthrough 1: Debugging, Logging, and Conditional Breakpoints
• Introducing the profiler
• Introducing Flash Player garbage collection
• Profiling an application
• Using memory profiling
• Walkthrough 2: Profiling an application
• Monitoring Flex RPC network traffic
• Using the Network Monitor
• Walkthrough 3: 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
• Walkthrough 1: Configuring the environment
• Creating and using the data model
• Table joins representation in the model
• Modeling language
• Editing generated ActionScript value objects
• Flash Builder functionality for MDD
• Walkthrough 2: Creating a data model and displaying its data
• Adding properties to the model
• Creating a derived property
• Updating changes to the database schema
• Creating a method to calculate a derived property
• Walkthrough 3: Creating a derived property
• Using styles in a form
• Implementing validation through styles
• Using styles to change other form behaviors
• Using global styles
• Walkthrough 4: Using styles to format and validate form properties
• Filtering returned data
• Implementing a filter
• Walkthrough 5: Filtering data

Implementing Advanced Model Driven Development Techniques

• Creating conditional properties with variants
• Implementing the variant in Flash Builder
• Selector expression
• Case
• Substructure
• Walkthrough 1: Implementing a variant
• Using resource bundles for localization
• Creating property files
• Compiling resources into the application
• Selecting a locale
• Walkthrough 2: Localizing the form
• Altering the form generator template
• Extracting the client-side templates
• Walkthrough 3: Change ComboBoxes to Lists in the form
• Generating the server side Java
• Walkthrough 4: Viewing the server-side Java

Appendix A: Student Setup Guide

• System requirements
• Machine requirements
• Software requirements
• Setup instructions
• Installing Flash Builder 4
• Installing LiveCycle Data Services ES2
• Installing the course files
• Testing the LCDS installation
• Download the modeling plug-in

Classroom Locations

eLearning Live

Newport Beach

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Jose