Enterprise Development with Flex: Best Practices for Ria Developers (Adobe Developer Library) - Softcover

Fain, Yakov; Rasputnis, Victor; Tartakovsky, Anatole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059615416X ISBN 13: 9780596154165

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2010

Synopsis

This groundbreaking book shows Flex developers exactly what's required to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the enterprise. Part of the popular "Adobe Developer Library" co-published by O'Reilly and Adobe, "Enterprise Development with Flex" goes well beyond Flex tutorials and product documentation to suggest best practices, compare frameworks and tools, and offer efficient techniques for developing enterprise RIAs. The authors provide many practical examples and rely on their considerable experience with enterprise Flex applications to help you overcome challenges during your project's lifecycle. With this unique advanced-level Flex book, you will: choose among several frameworks to build Flex applications, including Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and Clear Toolkit; apply selected design patterns with Flex; learn how to extend the Flex framework and build your own component library; minimize the need to program manually with Business Style Sheets (BSS); also learn about the internals of Adobe's LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS); integrate functions from Adobe's LiveCycle ES SOA platform with your existing Flex-based applications; construct Flex libraries that you can reuse across portals and other applications; develop a sample AIR application that automatically synchronizes local and remote databases to support your sales force; get solutions for leveraging AMF protocol and synchronizing Flex client data modifications with BlazeDS-based servers; and, determine the actual performance of your application, and get suggestions for writing efficient code in MXML and ActionScript. "Enterprise Development with Flex" also offers suggestions for equipping your Flex team with proper tools and methodologies, guidelines for determining the skill sets required for the project, and much more.

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About the Author

Yakov Fain is a Managing Director at Farata Systems, a company provides consulting and training services. He authored several books on Java and Flex and dozens of articles on software development. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Mr. Fain with the title of Java Champion, which was presented to only a hundred people in the world. Yakov is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor. He holds MS in Applied Math. You can reach him at yfain@faratasystems.com. Dr. Victor Rasputnis is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He's responsible for Farata consulting and mentoring practice, providing architectural design to companies implementing RIA with Adobe Flex, Air and Livecycle technologies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Robotics. Victor is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor. Victor lives in New York with his wife Aziza and his daughter Alice. He likes playing tennis and skiing with his friends. You can reach him at vrasputnis@faratasystems.com. Anatole Tartakovsky is a technology consultant, emerging technologies enthusiast and problem solver. He is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems and is responsible for creation of frameworks and reusable components. Prior Anatole played roles as Technology Consultant, Project Manager, CTO, and Mentor for various enterprises. Anatole authored number of books and articles on Flex, AJAX, XML, and client-server technologies. His education includes MS in mathematics and post graduate work in Expert Systems. You can reach him at atartakovsky@faratasystems.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 059615416X
• ISBN 13: 9780596154165
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 680