Introducing Adobe Cairngorm

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.

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.

Prerequisites

• 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

Next Steps

All Flex courses

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