Very First Steps in Flex
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Overview
Rich Internet Applications and Flex are taking off. Many developers need to learn Flex fast. This refcard will help readers get started learning Flex. Firstly, a simple “Hello, World” application which will help familiarize readers with the Flex Builder tool and programming model. Secondly, we'll go into depth about how to connect Flex applications to back-end data through RESTful XML and SOAP. And lastly, “Remoting and Messaging with Java” walks through how to easily connect to a Java back-end with the open source BlazeDS product.
Features include Hello, World, Web Services, Remoting and Messaging with Java, Hot Tips and more.
About the Author
Bruce Eckel specializes in languages and rapid-development tools and techniques, and provides consulting, workshops and conferences. He is the author of the multi-award-winning Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++, among others. Visit his web site at www.MindViewInc.com.
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. He travels the globe speaking at conferences and teaching developers how to build better software with Flex. Visit his web site at www.jamesward.com.


Comments
R.S.RAMASWAMY replied on Wed, 2008/08/20 - 5:30am
readers may find similar beginner's tutorial in
http://geeth.ganesan.googlepages.com/flex2tutorial
aroldomestre@ho... replied on Fri, 2009/01/02 - 12:23pm
lizgado replied on Thu, 2009/02/19 - 10:24am
in response to: rsr
Thank you for this resource, It's really helpful and well explained.
Strongly recommended! estrias
moshekipud replied on Sun, 2010/01/03 - 4:59pm
CaselyFatz replied on Wed, 2010/01/20 - 3:10am
gittar replied on Thu, 2010/02/04 - 8:53pm
aliza3333 replied on Sat, 2010/02/06 - 5:33pm
Well learning Flex in short period is due to its increasing demand. Its very useful and I wanted to quote some words from Adobe:
"The primary use of ActionScript in your Flex applications is probably going to be for working with the visual controls and containers in your application. Flex provides several techniques for doing this, including referencing a Flex control in ActionScript and manipulating properties during the instantiation of controls and containers."
PDF is very helpful to me, thanks to Bruce and James for writing it in an easy way and integrating the things in a good manner. Oklahoma Felony Thanks for sharing.