Here is the 15,240 meter view.
Flex was created to let the the interface designers work independently
of the background programmers (DBA). It is designed to communicative
to a database through a server only. This usually means you or
somebody else must create server side code that accesses the
database. You would then expose those "web services" to the flex
interface through the http protocol or some other type (AMF, JSON,
SOAP, XMLRPC). Flex focuses more on presentation that direct data
access. Furthermore, flex is basically flash which inherits the
"bling bling affect".
Corey
On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Here are some great sites
http://www.cflex.net/
This site has great examples from very basic through tutorial and
videos for learning "micro frameworks" like Mate.
http://blog.flexcommunity.net/
http://www.actionscript.org/
There are 100's of sites out there
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Scanzano" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 7:44:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [AFFUG Discuss] New member with many questions...
Doug,
I’m the fellow who made that comment about “Much to learn with very
few direct examples
In some of the more difficult areas.” I qualified my response with
“difficult areas”.
The easy examples are abound. I would love to find examples of more
advanced material.
Here’s one: Is there something available on how a ComboBox would get
loaded via a Web
Service which communicates to an application server/database server
that has an MySQL
database which contains the list of items (table) for the combo box?
This would include an
illustration of the ComboBox data provider getting loaded on the
response to the retrieval
request.
Thanks if you can help me.
Henry
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas
Knudsen
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] New member with many questions...
Their is no 'direct interface' by design. Flex is a UI and is
largely agnostic to what, how, who, or where you feed it data from.
It is analogous to HTML. This is good design in that Flex can be
hooked up to just about anything your heart desires or that your CTO
has pushed on you :)
With regards to your other response concerning finding no useful
information. About three years ago I would agree with you, but
present times I very strongly disagree with you. For one http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
is loaded with examples, even videos. There are numerous other
sites and books now to choose from. That said, it appears from your
questions you may not fully understand a typical web development
stack. Info abounds out in Googleland on this, here is one such
short tutorial:http://www.solosignal.com/solo-signal-series-the-web-stack-explained
Flex would pretty much live in 5,6,7,and 8 there. Sometimes its
good to step back to the 50,000 foot view, eh?
We have monthly meetings with examples and topics covering several
areas of Flex development. We typically, but not always, have a 101
level topic before a secondary one. So please, come on out and join
us!
I'll also add there are several companies offering training, one of
which is local and a sponsor, EchoEleven.com.
Douglas Knudsen
http://www.cubicleman.com
this is my signature, like it?
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Laurence MacNeill <[email protected]
> wrote:
At 06:13 PM 4/6/2009, you wrote:
No you don't have to learn CF to do adobe flex.
You can use any backend technology such as C#/ASP on the windows side
or php/perl/ruby/java on the linux (or windows) side.
I use reails on the backend myself.
As far as talking to the db directly theoretically it is possible but
I dont think anyone has written a interface between any of the major
databases and flex yet.
I don't know anything about those other options you mentioned. And
the people I'm writing this app for are already using CF anyway, so
I guess I'll have to learn it. Yuck.
So why is there no direct interface built-in to Flex, anyway?
Anyone know? What I mean is, why didn't Adobe build-in an
interface to the more popular databases? Seems like that would've
made life a lot simpler.
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA
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