F3IC : Flex 3 Introducing Cairngorm (4 hours)

Description

Flex 3: Introducing Cairngorm surveys the core concepts behind the Cairngorm RIA micro-architecture by re-factoring the application taught and built in the Flex 3: Rich Client Applications training course.

Course length : 4 hours

Audience

This course is designed to introduce the core concepts behind the Cairngorm RIA micro-architecture to experienced developers who are new to Adobe Flex 3. To gain the most from this class, you should:

• Have already taken the Flex 3: Rich Client Applications training course, or have equivalent experience using MXML and ActionScript 3
• Be familiar with basic Object Oriented Programming in ActionScript 3

Course outline

Introducing Flex 3: Introducing Cairngorm

• Introducing Adobe Cairngorm
• Understanding the purpose of Adobe Cairngorm
• Reviewing the benefits of using Cairngorm
• Learning about the components of Cairngorm
• Using Cairngorm in Flex RIAs
• Identifying roles of code
• Refactoring code to Cairngorm layers and classes
• Reviewing benefits of Cairngorm refactoring
• Implementing the ModelLocator
• Using the ModelLocator
• Implementing the ServiceLocator
• Using the ServiceLocator
• Implementing Cairngorm events
• Introducing the concept of Business Events
• Using a Cairngorm event
• Implementing Commands
• Using the Command
• Implementing the FrontContoller
• Using the FrontController
• Implementing Delegates
• Building a Cairngorm Delegate
• Using the Cairngorm components