Drag 与 Drop 是AIR一个很重要的功能，做的好了，相当炫耀，这个教程精彩之极，不可错过

AIR做个游戏，讨好改讨好的家伙，还是不错的，不过游戏怎么做？请看Adobe Edge出版的记忆游戏

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The sheer amount of XML configuration in Struts is overwhelming. I’m talking about thousands of lines. At some point, we were working with one single file, shared by a team of about 20 developers. You can imagine the chaos.

So, we started looking for a tool. I personally did a test drive on all the tools supporting Struts, including light alternatives like MyEclipse and behemoths like IBM RAD (used to be WSAD back then). There was only one tool which was acceptable in our case and it was called NitroX, developed by a small company called M7. Later on, it was acquired by BEA and renamed BEA Workshop, not to be confused with their incumbent BEA Workshop for WebLogic. The two tools were later merged and, eventually, found their way to the new owner, Oracle. It is now called Oracle Workshop for WebLogic. BTW, the only close alternative at the time was Exadel Studio, which was acquired by JBoss and became JBoss Developer Studio.

Last week, Oracle made an interesting move and decided to give it away for free (requires registration). The full workshop was an expensive piece of software, priced at up to $1000, if I recall correctly. What most people don’t realize today is that this tool includes some Oracle/BEA specific parts, but also includes generic support for Struts 1.x, JSF and Hibernate and plugins for supporting Tomcat, JBoss, Resin, Jetty, and WebSphere. It is also a great tool for JSP editing. One of the few tools which came really close to near-WYSIWYG visual editing, with customizable design-time representation for JSP custom tags.

If you’re using any of these technologies, I suggest you check it out. I haven’t tried all the features, but I know that the Struts/JSF/JSP support is as good as it gets. It currently officially supports only Windows and Linux and can be downloaded here. It is a true hidden gem now, tucked away in the humongous Oracle web site.

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Installing Eclipse IDE

1. Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
2. Download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (windows version)
3. Extract the zip file to your Program File directory (you don’t install eclipse from an exe or msi file)
4. Open the directory you extracted your files to
5. Right click on the eclipse.exe file, hold and drag to your start menu to create a shortcut

Installing CFEclipse

1. Run eclipse
2. Accept the default Workspace (you can change it later)
3. From the help menu, select Software Updates -> Find and Install
4. Select the “Search for new features” radio button. Next.
5. Click the “New Remote Site” button
6. Enter CFEclipse as the name
7. Enter http://www.cfeclipse.org/update for the URL. OK.
8. Click the Finish Button
9. Eclipse will now go off and check the CFEclipse site
10. Tick all plugin boxes
11. The next steps are self explainatory…
12. …Restart Eclipse

Changing the font size and / or colours

1. Windows menu -> preferences
2. Expand General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
3. Expand the Basic folder in the dialog box
4. Click on Text Font
5. Click the Change button
6. Choose your font

View line numbers

1. Windows menu -> preferences
2. Expand General -> Editors
3. Tick the Show Line Numbers box

If you’re new to Eclipse then you should know that you can’t just open a file, first you need to create a new project.

1. File -> New Project
2. open the CFEclipse folder and select CFML Project. Next
3. Enter your project name
4. Untick the “use default option” box
5. Browse to your project folder. Finish.

1. Download the driver from Microsoft.
2. Install the driver. By default, this installs in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC on Windows platforms.
3. In the ColdFusion Administrator, click on the “Java and JVM” page. Add the directory in which the mssqlserver.jar resides to the Class Path field. By default, this is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib on Windows platforms.
4. Click Submit Changes to update Java and JVM Settings for ColdFusion MX.
5. Restart the ColdFusion MX Application Server service. Note: On Unix platforms, from the cf_root/runtime/bin directory, run coldfusion restart.
6. Use the ColdFusion Administrator Data Sources page to add a new data source for the Microsoft JDBC driver:
   For example:
   1. Name the data source ps_db where it will connect to the server named ps-db where MicrosoftSQL Server resides.
   2. Select Other in the driver field to tell ColdFusion you will describe another type of driver.
   3. Click Add to add the data source and display the default driver window for this driver.
7. Enter the following in the JDBC URL field:jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://ps-db:1433;DatabaseName=NorthWind

   Where ps-db is the name of the database server.

   Where 1433 is the port number for the data source connection.

   Where NorthWind is the database you are connecting to.

   Note: The information in this field is case-sensitive.

8. Enter the following in the Driver Class field:com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver

   Note: The information in this field is case-sensitive.

9. Enter a valid username and password in the Username and Password fields.Where the username and password are defined as user account information on the database server.
10. (Optional) Enter the name of the driver in the Driver Name field.
11. Click Submit to apply the changes to the data source.

Flex 2 Essential Training (CD-ROM)

ActionScript 3.0 Essential Training (CD-ROM)
by Joey Lott (Author)
• CD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc (July 19, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 1596712627
• ISBN-13: 978-1596712621

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
by Joey Lott (Author), Darron Schall (Author), Keith Peters (Author)
• Paperback: 556 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596526954
• ISBN-13: 978-0596526955

Flex 2 Beyond the Basics (CD-ROM)
by David Gassner (Author)
• CD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc. (October 10, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 1596712848
• ISBN-13: 978-1596712843

Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source (Paperback)
by Jeff Tapper (Author), Matt Boles (Author), James Talbot (Author), Ben Elmore (Author), Mike Labriola (Author)
• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; Pap/Cdr edition (October 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032142316X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321423160

Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns (Paperback)
by Joey Lott (Author), Danny Patterson (Author)
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st edition (November 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321426568
• ISBN-13: 978-0321426567

The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0 (Paperback)
by Charles E Brown (Author)
• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597338
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597330

Programming Flex 2.0: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Media Applications with Adobe Flex (Paperback)
by Chafic Kazoun (Author), Joey Lott (Author)
• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059652689X
• ISBN-13: 978-0596526894
Free Chapters on Adobe.com

Professional Flex 2 (Paperback)
by Rich Tretola (Author), Simon Barber (Author), Renaun Erickson (Author)
• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (April 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470102675
• ISBN-13: 978-0470102671

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 with Flash and Flex 2 (Paperback)
by Steve Webster (Author)
• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Apress (June 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598156
• ISBN-13: 978-1590598153

Flex 2.0 Cookbook: The Adobe Developer Library Guide for Rich Internet Application Developers (Paperback)
by Joey Lott (Author), Chafic Kazoun (Author)
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596529856
• ISBN-13: 978-0596529857

Programming Flex 2
by Chafic Kazoun (Author), Joey Lott (Author)
• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April, 2007)
Rough Cuts Release: October 2006
Print Book Release: April 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0-596-52850-7
• ISBN-13: 9780596528508

Essential ActionScript 3.0: Rough Cuts Version
By Colin Moock
• Paperback: 760 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June, 2007)
Rough Cuts Release: October 2006
Print Book Release: June 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0-596-52993-7
• ISBN-13: 9780596529932

Flex 2.0 User Interface Design & Development: Creating User-Friendly Rich Internet Applications (Paperback)
by Matt Voerman (Author), Simon Reid (Author)
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596528450
• ISBN-13: 978-0596528454

Total Training for Adobe® Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications
Hosted by James Talbot
Format: DVD (ROM)
Platform: Windows & MAC OS

Total Training for Adobe® Flex 2 Advanced Visual Programming
Hosted by Leo M. Schuman
Format: DVD (ROM)
Platform: Windows & MAC OS

Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex & Java: Secrets of the Masters
Yakov Fain, Dr. Victor Rasputnis, Anatole Tartakovsky
http://www.riabook.com/
ISBN 0-9777622-2-X
Shipping Date: Fall 2006

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide
A Developer’s Reference for Apollo’s Alpha Release
By Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz
First Edition March 2007
Pages: 121

ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts
By Bill Sanders
January 2007
Pages: 74

Flexible Rails
by Peter Armstrong
Flexible Rails is an in-progress, PDF-only book about using Ruby on Rails 1.1 or 1.2 and Flex 2 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs).
currently 399 pages

Adobe Flex 2.0 Documentation Set

Old List: http://renaun.com/blog/2006/06/27/49/

Note: Yes, I am an author of one of these books. I’ll talk more about it in the coming months.

We’ve already made some good progress starting with Flash Player 8 where we added DirectX and OpenGL optimizations to boost graphics performance.

Does any one know more of the specifics of this statement? Are there tests to show the performance differences (now that we have Flash Player 9 for Linux)?

Other resources for job postings can be found at:
The “Flex Jobs” google group page.
Tariq over at CFlex.net keeps a list.

As a Flex developer my self and a manager seeking Flex developers its exciting to see the growth in of Flex jobs in the last 6 months since release.

With the release of Adobe’s Flash Media Encoder we have an another live encoder, DigitalRapids also has VP6 support through software for their video cards.

The Adobe Flash Media Encoder software it self seems to have promise. I downloaded the software and installed it. At first look it does not look like a typical Windows application but more like a Flash/Flex app wrapped in a exe (I have no real knowledge of what it really is written in).

The Audio options are limited to the NellyMoser codec and up to 32kbps 22Hz Mono. The options for video settings out does on2’s Flix Live software. Also noteworthy is that the FME can save live recordings to file as well as provide a nice log and real time stats of the stream’s bitrate and time.

I couldn’t get it to connect to a FMS but did not have time to test throughly, I was getting some errors on the FMS side that I am not sure if its the FME or the FMS application instance. I’ll try and post more when I have time to play with the application more.

Get FME and the FMS Authentication Plugin-In off the labs now - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/fme.html

How do you create a instance of a component at runtime with only the class name? what about when the class name is dynamic it self?

Go and post samples, rate posts, or add comments and help make the Flex Cookbook a very good hub of information.

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Get the source here!

To change the backend of the Cairngorm Store example just select the backend you want from ComboBox and then click on the Refresh Data button. I had to do write some exception code to convert the returned XML data into the ArrayCollection to conform all the backend but besides that it was really easy to integrate all of them into the Services.mxml.

PS: I just installed a new license on the ColdFusion server with a new Apache web server configuration so let me know if there are any issues.