hopefully by now youve heard all about flex, the most recent addition to the macromedia server product family. hot on the tail of its release, macromedia training has released "fast track to flex," a new course that introduces developers to developing rich internet applications (rias) using the macromedia flex server.
if you dont already know it, flex is a j2ee application that parses xml files (mxml files to be exact) and renders a flash user interface based on the xml mark-up. because the server renders flash based on xml mark-up, no knowledge of flash or the flash authoring environment is required to use it. you dont have to have any knowledge of flash or cf (or any other particular programming language) in order to take the class-the course prerequisite is that students be familiar with some basic object oriented programming ideas. any cf developer used to using coldfusion components should do fine.
if youre familiar with actionscript, javascript, java, or any other programming language, so much the better. the course also assumes that students are comfortable with xml, but you dont need to be an xml expert - a simple understanding of tags and attributes and the rules of creating valid xml (every tag must have a closing tag, tags must be properly nested, and so on) is more than enough.
like all other macromedia training offerings, the course units introduce students to ne... 下一页