pt. 1: Flex fundamentals. About Flex 4 -- Using Flash Builder 4 -- Building a basic Flex application -- Understanding the anatomy of a Flex application -- Using bindings and components -- Debugging Flex applications -- Working with events -- pt. 2: Designing Flex applications -- Using Flex visual controls -- Working with text -- Using layout containers -- Using cascading style sheets -- Controlling animation and working with drag and drop -- Managing view states -- Declaring graphics with MXML and FXG -- Skinning spark components -- Managing application navigation -- Working with pop-up windows -- pt. 3: Working with data. Modeling and managing data -- Using list controls -- Using advanced list controls -- Using the Flex charting controls -- Working with data entry forms -- Working with HTTPService and XML -- Managing XML with E4X -- pt. 4: Integrating Flex applications with application servers. Working with SOAP-based web services -- Integrating Flex applications with BlazeDS and Java -- Using the message service with BlazeDS -- Integrating Flex applications with ColdFusion -- Integrating Flex applications with PHP -- pt. 5: Additional subjects. Localizing Flex 4 applications -- Deploying desktop applications wit Adobe AIR.
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"Create desktop applications that behave identically on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Adobe's new Flash Builder 4 platform and this in-depth guide. The book's tutorials and explanations walk you step-by-step through Flash Builder's new, faster tools; the new framework for generating code; how to connect to popular application servers; upgrading from Flex 3"--Resource description page.