contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
author online
about the authors
about the cover illustration
Part 1 Laying the foundation
- Chapter 1 Some Flex with your Java?
- A whirlwind tour of Flex
- Creating an application in Flex
- Finding the right tools and patterns
- Summary
- Chapter 2 Beginning with Java
- Working with AppFuse
- Generating the application structure with Maven
- Build the model objects
- Build the DAOs
- Build the services
- Wiring things together with Spring
- Constructing the web tier
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Getting rich with Flex
- Generating the application structure
- Configuring the flex-bugs-ria module
- Configure Maven for the flex-bugs-web module
- Adding a wrapper for our SWF
- “Hello World!” in Flex
- Developing the FlexBugs application
- Laying out the components
- Creating a pop-up component
- The finished application
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Connecting to web services
- Model View Presenter
- Web services in Flex
- Dispatching and handling events
- Creating Issue and Comment transfer objects
- Enhancing the master view
- Enhancing the detail view
- Enhancing the comments view
- Adding a pop-up form for editing comments
- Summary
Part 2 BlazeDS remoting
- Chapter 5 BlazeDS remoting and logging
- Introducing BlazeDS
- Getting BlazeDS
- Building a BlazeDS configuration Maven module
- Exposing Java services to Flex remoting
- Connecting to Java with BlazeDS
- Logging
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Flex messaging
- Setting up BlazeDS for messaging
- Modifying the client for messaging
- Summary
Part 3 The joys of Flex on Java
- Chapter 7 Securing and personalizing your application
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Personalization
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Charting with Degrafa
- Drawing in Flex
- Common Degrafa concepts
- Creating a pie chart for fun and profit
- Adding your pie chart to the application
- Beyond the example
- Summary
- Chapter 9 Desktop 2.0 with AIR
- Creating a common library
- Creating the AIR application
- Packaging the AIR application
- Distributing the AIR application
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Testing your Flex application
- Unit testing and TDD
- Updating the project
- Testing the Presenter
- Testing the View
- Testing the Model
- Continuous integration with Hudson
- Summary
- Chapter 11 Flex on Grails
- Why Groovy and Grails?
- Downloading and installing Grails
- Creating the Grails application
- Getting rich with Flex
- Install the Grails JMS and ActiveMQ plugins
- Add the ActiveMQ Spring bean
- Subscribe the Flex client to the Grails JMS service
- Summary
- index
