Flex 3: Integrating with ColdFusion (2 days)
This course provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience connecting their Flex front ends to back end ColdFusion components using Flash Remoting. In addition, skills will be learned how to manipulate and format the returned data. To gain the most from this class, you should:
- Have attended or have equivalent knowledge of the topics covered in the Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications course
- Know how to create ColdFusion components
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- Introducing Flex and ColdFusion
- Integrating Flex applications with ColdFusion
- Understanding the Flex services configuration file
- Using the ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder
- Using CFEclipse
- Using ColdFusion components with Flash Remoting
- Understanding Flash Remoting and the RemoteObject class
- Calling CFC methods with RemoteObject
- Using RemoteObject Events
- Making complex Remote Method Calls
- Using the ColdFusion Wizards for Flex Builder
- Understanding the ColdFusion Wizards for Flex Builder
- Using the CFC Value Object Wizard
- Using code from the CFC Value Object Wizard
- Modifying data with Wizard methods
- Using the ColdFusion/Flex Application Wizard
- Managing data on the client
- Understanding collection classes
- Filtering data on the client
- Sorting data on the client
- Traversing data using a cursor
- Providing XML to Controls with E4X
- Understanding XML structure
- Working with XML data in ActionScript 3
- Using E4X expressions
- Using the Tree control
- Using E4X expressions for search
- Removing items from XML
- Introducing BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES (LCDS)
- Introducing BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES
- Creating a Flex project for use with ColdFusion and BlazeDS or LCDS
- BlazeDS and LCDS features
- Using the Proxy Service
- Using the Message Service (requires BlazeDS or LCDS)
- Introducing the Message Service
- Sending Messages
- Receiving and processing messages
- Sending and receiving complex data
- Using the Message Service with ColdFusion Event Gateways
- Using the Data Management Service (requires LCDS)
- Data Management Service Overview
- Creating a Data Management Service destination for use with ColdFusion
- Using the Data Management Service in a Flex application
- Managing changes to data
- Managing changes to data
- Using DataService events
- Exploring advanced Data Management Service features
- Uploading files to ColdFusion
- Implementing file transfer basics
- Uploading a file