Professional Cairngorm
Book Description
Take advantage of Cairngorm, one of the leading Flex frameworks for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
Cairngorm is a framework that encourages best practices for RIA development. It is the most popular and widely deployed Flex framework, yet very few books provide the depth and detail necessary to thoroughly understand and utilize it. This helpful resource fills that void by going beyond the basics of Cairngorm and showing you the details behind its design.
Using a full-scale project throughout the book, the author shows you Cairngorm in a real-world situation. You’ll examine the various parts of the framework and what those parts are designed to accomplish, plus you’ll learn how to implement each of the individual parts to create a complete project.
- Offers hard-to-find coverage of Cairngorm, the popular framework used for RIA development
- Features a real-world case throughout the book to walk you through the process of using Cairngorm in a large-scale project
- Explains the details behind Cairngorm and how you can best take advantage of this framework
With this resource, you’ll get step-by-step guidance on how to best take advantage of all that Cairngorm has to offer.
From the Back Cover
Professional Cairngorm “Jeremy Wischusen”
Create components and classes with the Cairngorm framework
Although Cairngorm is the oldest and most widely used Flex framework, very little literature exists that clearly explains how to implement this framework. This book fills that void by showing you how Cairngorm facilitates team development, encourages best practices for building Flex-based RIAs, and works well with medium- to large-scale projects in which code needs to be separated and organized.
- Begins with an introduction to Cairngorm, focusing on the underlying principles, source code, and uses of Cairngorm
- Examines the major components of Cairngorm including the ModelLocator, ServiceLocator, FrontController, Events, Commands, Delegates, and Value Objects
- Presents a sample project that walks you through the various aspects of its organization and its handling of application logic
- Explains how to make the most of events, commands, delegates, and value objects
- Explores alternative methods for using events, commands, and delegates
- Shares techniques for linking Cairngorm to a project
- Offers suggestions for taking advantage of plug-ins and extensions
About the Author
Jeremy Wischusen has worked for such clients as Dockers, Quicksilver, Major League Baseball, Sports Authority, CBS, and Liz Claiborne. He works with front- and backend systems, designing many projects from start to finish using such technologies as Ajax, jQuery, CSS, XHTML, PHP, Flash, and Flex.
Book Details
- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Wrox (November 23, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470497262
- ISBN-13: 978-0470497265
- File Size: 5.2 MiB
- File Format: PDF | EPUB | PDF + EPUB
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Professional Cairngorm
