Part 2. Application flow and structure

Part 1 focused on putting together the core blocks of an application. Part 2 moves forward with the application’s wiring and structure.

Flex is an event-based environment. Although Part 1 discussed the basic mechanics of using events, the next nine chapters go into much more depth about how the event model works and how you can make your own events. You’ll use the power of events to add navigation and interactivity to your Flex applications.

A Flex application isn’t much use without a back-end system to exchange data with. As part of application flow, you’ll learn about the mechanisms available to transfer data back and forth.

That data may come in the form of XML, which Flex is adept at handling. With Flex’s ...

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