Flex 4 and LiveCycle Data Services 3: Data Driven Development (2 days)

F4DDD is a 2 day comprehensive introduction to using LiveCycle Data Services 3 with the Adobe Flex 4 framework. Emphasized topics include:

Developers wishing to extend their Flex knowledge and leverage LiveCycle Data Services in Flex applications

Flex 4: Developing Rich Iinternet Applications course or significant hands-on Adobe Flex experience

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

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
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
Managing RemoteObject events using AsyncToken
- Understanding dynamic classes
Remoting Service Runtime Configuration
- Selecting a channel at runtime

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

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 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

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

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