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Pro Flex on Spring
of: Chris Giametta
Apress, 2009
ISBN: 9781430218364 , 488 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Contents at a Glance
5
Contents
6
About the Author
13
About the Technical Reviewer
14
Acknowledgments
15
Introduction
16
Who This Book Is For
16
How This Book Is Structured
16
Downloading the Code
18
Contacting the Author
18
Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Spring
19
What Are Rich Internet Applications?
19
Introducing Adobe Flex
24
Introducing the Spring Framework
28
The Marriage of Flex and Spring
30
Summary
31
Project Planning for Flex and Spring
32
Staffing a Flex on Spring Project
32
Defining the Technology Stack
33
Planning the AF – Client Manager Project
34
Summary
60
The Tools for the Job
61
Flex and Spring Tool Set
61
Building Flex SDK Applications with Ant
62
Eclipse IDE
65
Setting Up Your Project Directory Structure
69
Summary
78
Introduction to Flex Applications
79
Introducing MXML and ActionScript
79
Handling Data in Flex
83
Creating Custom Components with ActionScript
94
Using Flex Libraries
108
Summary
111
Introduction to Spring
112
Spring Bean Wiring
112
Spring MVC
115
Spring Factories
125
Testing with Spring
132
Summary
136
Flex and Spring Integration Architecture
137
Transport Architecture
137
The Three Flex Communication Protocols
138
Flex in the Enterprise
150
Using Flex RPC RemoteObject
151
Summary
170
Architecting the View: Cairngorm and PureMVC
171
Using PureMVC
171
Using Cairngorm
193
Summary
214
Data Persistence
216
Spring Database Transaction Management
216
Setting Up for Data Persistence
224
Using JDBC
230
Using iBATIS
234
Using Hibernate 3 with Annotations
243
Summary
253
Security
254
Flash Player Security
254
Flex Security
258
Authentication and Authorization for Flex with Spring Security
269
Summary
279
Flex, Spring, Cairngorm, Hibernate: Bringing It All Together
281
AF – Client Manager Project Definition
281
Development Projects: Flex, Flex Library, and Spring
290
Spring Configuration for Flex
295
Hibernate Configuration for Spring
298
Cairngorm Configuration for Flex
301
Summary
307
Building the Database
309
Database Design Overview
309
MySQL Database Overview
311
Hierarchy Storage
312
AF – Client Manager Database Schema Design
313
Summary
322
Building the Spring Services
323
Spring Architecture and Service Definition
323
Spring BlazeDS Integration Configuration
325
Spring Remote Services for Flex
325
DAO Implementation with Hibernate 3
346
Registration of Spring Beans
359
Summary
367
Building the Flex User Interface
368
Flex Architecture and Component Definition
368
Flex RemoteObject Configuration
384
Flex Component Construction Using Cairngorm
386
Skinning and Styling the Application
417
Touch In
425
Summary
426
Porting the Flex Application to AIR
427
What Is AIR?
427
Building AIR Applications with the Command Line
428
Using the Flex SDK to Create AIR Applications
431
Creating an AIR Project with Flex Builder
435
Moving Your Flex Code to AIR
437
Summary
443
Installing the RIA Tools Platform
444
Installing Apache Tomcat
444
Installing Eclipse
446
Installing MySQL and GUI Tools
447
Installing the Flex Builder Plug-In
449
Installing the Flex SDK
451
Installing Ant
451
Building Flex Applications with Ant
452
Index
454
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