Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for Flex 3 in Action

Foreword to the First Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Title

About the Cover Illustration

1. Application basics

Chapter 1. Making the case

1.1. Why are web applications so prolific?

1.2. The RIA solution

1.2.1. They all want it all

1.2.2. RIAs to the rescue

1.2.3. How RIAs do it

1.3. The RIA contenders

1.3.1. Flex by Adobe

1.3.2. Silverlight by Microsoft

1.3.3. JavaFX by Sun Microsystems

1.3.4. AJAX—the last stand

1.4. Becoming acquainted with Flex

1.4.1. Taking advantage of Adobe Flash

1.4.2. Flex and JavaScript can play together

1.4.3. The Flex ecosystem

1.5. How Flex works

1.5.1. The Flex languages

1.5.2. Events, events, events

1.5.3. Limitations

1.6. What’s new in Flex 4

1.7. Summary

Chapter 2. Getting started

2.1. Flex on the cheap

2.1.1. Setting up the compile environment

2.0.1. Setting up the editing environment

2.0.2. Next steps (if you’re still interested)

2.1. Get serious with Flash Builder

2.1.1. Product and pricing matrix

2.1.2. Getting Flash Builder

2.2. Exploring Flash Builder

The Wizards (1)

Application Launcher (2)

Package Explorer (3)

Application Outline View (4)

Bottom Pane (5)

Source Code Editor (6)