This two day workshop will help enterprise and application architects,  and team leaders understand how to run real-world Adobe Flex projects.  Attendees will get an overview of frameworks, tools, utilities and best practices of RIA development with Adobe Flex and Java. This technical event will help you to avoid typical mistakes made while developing Flex projects. We'll keep this workshop small so everybody gets a chance to be heard.

Class Outline

DAY 1

Adobe Flex Architecture
   Architecture of Flash Player VM   
   Flash Player processing cycle
   Data binding and MVC under the hood

Flex UI components:

   Overview of  Spark components, Flex4 Skins
   Life cycle of custom components (use of callLater, commitProperties, updateDisplayList)

Selected Design Patterns in Flex
    Application as  Singleton
    Proxy for intercepting data changes
    Mediator in custom UI components
    Advanced DTO
    AsyncToken in Remoting
    Class Factory in a DataGrid
 
  Linking Flex Libraries: when to use merged, external, and RSL
   Tricks with libraries to make them self-initialized
   Linking Flex Framework as RSL
   Perceived performance improvement via pre-loaders and smarted RSL loading

Accessing Enterprise Server Tier

       LCDS vs. BlazeDS
       Flex Communication Protocols RTMP and AMF
       Polling vs. Long polling vs. streaming
       Basics of  creating custom adapters for BlazeDS/LCDS
       Model-driven development with LCDS 3.0

      Flex Messaging:
               Flex Client - Flex Client messaging
               Flex Client - external JMS messaging
               Server Push to Flex Clients with BlazeDS

       RPC Services
               HTTPService
               WebService
               Flex Remoting

       DataManagement Services

               Data Synchronization with LCDS
               Data Synchronization with BlazeDS
               Remoting with DataCollection object

        Monitoring AMF network traffic

Free Belgium beer for all attendees (5-7PM).


DAY 2


Staffing Flex projects
 Three groups of Flex developers
 GUI and Component Developers
 Responsibilities of Flex Architects
 Designer-developer workflow

Comparing MVC Architectural Flex Frameworks
  Cairngorm
  Mate
  PureMVC
  Parsley

Overview of Clear Toolkit by Farata
   Logging with Log2Fx
   Automation of Ant scripts with Fx2Ant
   Automatic generation of ActionScript Data Transfer Objects with DTO2Fx
   Generation of CRUD applications with Clear Data Builder

Flex 4: new layouts and  layouts and renderers

Modularization of Flex enterprise applications
       Flex Class loaders
       Flex Modules and sub-applications
       Application Domains and class isolation

Working with Adobe AIR
  Occasionally Connected Applications with Adobe AIR BlazeDS
  Overview of a sample AIR application demonstrating data synchronization   between local and remote  
  databases
  Overview of AIR 2.0

Testing tools for Flex applications
  Unit Testing with FlexUnit 4
  Stress testing
  Functional Testing

Improving performance of Flex applications: the check list

Challenges of printing from Flash Player
PDF generation on the client

If you are planning to stay at Hilton Brussels, send an email at yfain@fatratasystems.com to  get the discount on the room rates (€179 including breakfast).

Instructors:

Yakov Fain is Managing Director at Farata Systems, a US-based company that provides consulting services in the field of development of enterprise Rich Internet applications. He authored several technical books, and dozens of articles on software development. Recently he co-authored the books  "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters" and "Enterprise Development with Flex". 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. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor.

Dr. Victor Rasputnis is Managing Director at Farata Systems. He spends most of his time providing architectural design, implementation management and mentoring to companies migrating to Flex and J2EE technologies. Victor authored several books and dozens of technical articles. He holds PhD in Computer Science. Recently he co-authored the books  "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters" and "Enterprise Development with Flex".

Anatole Tartakovsky is a managing director at Farata Systems. He spent more than 20 years developing complex distributed systems. In the last ten years, his focus has been on creating frameworks and business applications for dozens of enterprises ranging from Wal-Mart to Wall Street firms. Anatole has authored a number of books and articles on AJAX, Flex, XML, the Internet, and client-server technologies. He holds an MS in Mathematics. Anatole knows the source code of Flex framework by heart.

Cancellation policy:

If this event is cancelled by Farata Systems, every registered attendee gets full refund.  If a registered attendee decides to cancel by February 15, 2010, we'll refund 100% of your payment. After February 15, 2010 no money is refunded, but can be used as a credit toward one of the future training events by Farata Systems.

If you have any questions, please call us at 1-732-598-4027.

Farata Systems is a consulting and training company, which employs RIA professionals specializing in development of enterprise RIA with Adobe Flex, AIR and Java. For more details please visit http://www.faratasystems.com

FAQ

What’s the size of the class?
Under 20 people

Is this a hands-on class?
No. It’s not possible to cover all these topics during two days in a hands-on set up. It’s a mix of lectures, live demos and code reviews

Do you provide any materials for the attendees?
Yes, Each attendee receives the hard and soft copy of all slides. We also provide the source code of all sample applications used during this workshop

Is it even possible to cover all this material in two days?
You won’t become an expert in these topics, but at least will get a good grasp of important concepts that will save you tons of time and efforts while working on your project. Based on the feedback from people who attended these seminars in the past, each person finds some solutions he’s been looking for to apply in his project.

What are the prerequisites for attending this seminar?
Having a hands-on experience with Flex  is a must. Basic understanding of Java helps, but not a must.

Do you teach this seminar privately on-site?
Yes, we teach this seminar world-wide. Please send an email to yfain at faratasystems.com if you'd like to make arrangements.