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Programming Flex 2: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex Paperback – April 26, 2007

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Adobe Developer Library; 1 edition (April 26, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 059652689X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596526894
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Chafic Kazoun is the founder and Chief Software architect at Atellis, and is widely considered one of the world's top experts on Flex (outside of the Adobe Flex engineering team). He has worked with Flash technologies since 1998 and with Flex since its inception, and he has a deep understanding of the internals of the Flex framework. He maintains a busy speaking and consulting schedule. When he's not busy developing solution-based applications, Chafic is actively involved in the Flash community, delivering presentations at numerous conferences including Adobe's MAX, Flashforward, FITC, Spark Europe, and MXDU. He is also the contributor of numerous published works and is the author of Programming Flex 2.0, a book recently released by O'Reilly Publishing. He is also an Adobe Community Expert, and shares his thoughts on his blog http://www.rewindlife.com.

Joey Lott is a founding partner of The Morphic Group, a Flex and Flash consulting company. At The Morphic Group Joey serves as a technology director, building some of today's most innovative Flex applications and advocating for the use and adoption of agile software development methodologies. He has written many books on Flex and Flash-related technologies, including Programming Flex 3, ActionScript 3 Cookbook, Adobe AIR in Action, and Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns.

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Great book for anyone looking for a firm foundation in Flex.
Joshua Ostrom
Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex is a great book for more advanced Flex developers.
Krzysztof Satola
You understand everything, but if u start implementing something, u will get stuck.
H. Choy

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Clearly Written; Well-Organized
By Brett Merkey on May 1, 2007
Format: Paperback
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The authors do a good job introducing the concepts and techniques of Flash-based Flex programming. Much of the content is directed at developers completely new to creating Flash content although familiarity with an object-oriented programming language and the latest trends in JavaScript (see my other reviews for examples) is recommended.

I won't recapitulate the chapters, which are given above in the editorial review. I just want to point out that the chapter order is not random but based on the authors' step-by-step approach though basic concepts.

To follow the examples you will need either:

- the free Flex SDK and your favorite code editor

or

- a trial version of Flex Builder

I give the authors credit for doing the extra work to show both alternatives in the samples. Believe me, the Flex Builder way takes far fewer steps!

I was disappointed with two things:

1) The URL for the book Web site was wrong. When I did find the book page on the O'Reilly site, there was no code download link. Since many code snippets were quite extensive, this lack is more than an inconvenience.

2) Each chapter stood more or less on its own. There was no integrated example to build upon from chapter to chapter.

This book fills in the gaps of the official Flex documentation and helps get you comfortable quickly with Flex.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Seems fine till you have to work
By D. King on June 13, 2007
Format: Paperback
I picked this book up and felt like I was sliding right into Flex. The concepts are familiar, the book lays the concepts out logically, I installed Flex Builder and did an initial HelloWorld and thought "This will be fun!"

After reading a couple hundred pages, I wanted to start a project. This is where the problems with the book hit me. The topics are covered at a very superficial level, and without any hands-on exercises. You don't proceed through simplistic but pedagogically useful example scenarios. I'm now reviewing the book, and its too-scant index (which makes it an unacceptable reference later), and realizing that I gleaned little about how to construct an application. How do I hook the MXML model to my ActionScript classes that provide the controllers? There's a VERY brief chapter on the life cycle of Flex apps and I'm sure I'll be able to figure this out because I've done similar things, but this is more a theoretical discussion of the concepts behind Flex than a how-to on programming Flex. Tastes great, (but) less filling. My guess is that a better hands-on Flex book plus a good ActionScript 3.0 book would be a much better choice, both for learning and for later reference.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A good overview, but falls short as a reference book
By Cvilly on May 21, 2007
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I've been using this book for about a week or so now and while I think it's well written and provides a good foundation for Flex development concepts, I find it lacking as a reference book. In particular, the index is nearly worthless. It seems like every time I want to look up a property or component, even some common ones, they are not listed. I've had better luck with Google searches and Adobe Live Docs. It's also very light on ActionScript because the author has another separate book dedicated to that subject.

If you want to read a technical book cover to cover, this may be for you. If you need to dive right in and are looking for a good reference book, this is not it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Major Disappointment
By darkstar666 on June 26, 2007
Format: Paperback
This book is well-written, and (in its Rough Cuts format) was very helpful while I was getting up to speed in Flex basics. Unfortunately it's virtually useless when it comes to helping out in real world projects. For instance, there are no examples of such basic use cases as importing an external xml file using the HTTPService tag, or how to populate a DataGrid using external data.

I give the book 2 stars instead of 1 because it does serve as a good introduction. But as soon as you start to try to get some work done, it's fairly useless. A major disappointment for a long-anticipated book. The Adobe Flex 2: Training From the Source, while far from perfect, is far superior in providing working code examples.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not practical . . .
By H. Choy on July 8, 2007
Format: Paperback
I own a lot of O'Reilly books and I like all of them . . except this one is not what I expected from O'Reilly books.

This books does explain the basics and provide beginners the needed information. But the book is a 'READ MY FEATURES' books, no practical examples, just short snippet codes that are unrelated each chapter. When u start reading everything looks cool. You understand everything, but if u start implementing something, u will get stuck. For example, using xml for datalist providers, i cant really find the information where they tell you where to put the code . .and more importantly, which packages you need to import. Although i figure it out myself, its confusing.

I stopped reading this book, I just browse it to see what features Flex 2 offers, then i better learn on the net, the quick start tutorials provided at the devloper site provides the EXACT information of the book . . even the structure of the discussed information are 80% the same, except they are more practical . .

I hope Flex 3 book will be a better one . . . but this time its a waste of time and money.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Buen Libro

Pues yo lo compre cuando no sabia nada de flex, y realmente aprendi mucho de él en su momento. Read more

Published on January 15, 2009 by Roberto A. Ortiz Hernandez
Download the free "Flex Developer Guide" from Adobe's site instead...

This is generally a well written overview book. Its chief problem is that it never gets beyond the basics, and that the "Flex Developer Guide" that Adobe provides for free on their... Read more

Published on June 28, 2008 by Kirill Mazin
Incorrect example codes

It is a well organized book.
However, some example codes are incorrect.
I find this problem in many of O'Reilly books and am not sure if they test all the source codes... Read more

Published on June 3, 2008 by Dongkeun Jang
Really enjoyable introduction to Flex2

Reading the reviews for this book made me nervous about picking it up in the first place, but I'm glad I did. Read more

Published on June 3, 2008 by Ammy_Evaluator
Great Flex 2 Programming Book

Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex is a great book for more advanced Flex developers. Read more

Published on April 17, 2008 by Krzysztof Satola
Solid intro to Flex 2

This is a solid, well written into to Flex 2. I would highly recommend this as a starting to learning Flex 2 or 3. Read more

Published on April 15, 2008 by Ray Galyon
Good

This is a good book for beginners. You will learn how to create a layout, working with UI components, transitions/effects, data, components, appearance... Read more

Published on April 1, 2008 by Arleston Lueders
Well Rounded Beginning

The interesting thing about reading through Flex 2 at this late date of publication is to see how the technology is developing as time goes on. Read more

Published on February 25, 2008 by Randy Merrill
Probably my favorite Flex book thus far

I read through some of the 2-star reviews of this book, and do agree with some of their points, but obviously not their conclusion. Read more

Published on February 1, 2008 by Nicholas Sardo
Not worth it

This was my second Flex book and I had hoped it would prove to be a "Comprehensive Guide" to Flex. Since I bought this book, it rarely leaves my shelf. Read more

Published on January 30, 2008 by D. Pazzula

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