Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide

Basics In this chapter, we learn to build simple interface elements and interactive structures. Both the elementary structures we build and the techniques we...

Objects and Events This chapter promotes our understanding of Flash to include advanced ActionScripting. We will study data structures in memory and the dynamic...

Data-Driven Interfaces This chapter completes our brief survey of advanced ActionScripting. We fulfill the goals we developed in the last chapter, focusing on data-driven...

Fundamentals If you want to connect Flash to the outside world, you need to learn . This may strike you as yet another a...

Structure In this chapter we closely examine the specification and learn how to create a well-formed document. The relevance of each topic to ActionScript...

Validation: DTD We have seen that can describe nearly any data. It offers tremendous flexibility as nothing is predefined. The element names we use...

Connection In this chapter we prepare for XML connectivity by developing skills in general Internet connectivity. We become familiar with the fundamentals of transactions...

Connection We achieved some success in the previous chapter. We connected to the server and downloaded a data file—a simple text file. In this...

Approach This chapter highlights improved programming concepts. It focuses on event-driven code and recursion in the abstract, then as used in ActionScript and as...

Server We have built Flash software that accesses a server, downloads , and displays the data. On the server, this data exists physically as...

Fundamentals We have taught our Flash client to communicate with a server via XML. Our goal in doing this was to expose our Flash...

Syntax Now that we understand how a relational database is built, we are ready to learn how to operate it. The interface to a...

from SQL Over the past few chapters we have learned why a DBMS is superior to a flat file. But so far our working...

Upload In this chapter we learn to generate an file from within Flash and to transmit the generated file directly to a server process...

XML This chapter extends the functionality we learned in the last chapter. We have uploaded an XML structure to the server in a stable...

We have established a reliable data link between client and server: A data structure is composed on the client and transmitted to the server....

Tiers In this chapter we drive the golden spike that connects the user-interface code of the last few chapters with the database technology that...

the World In this chapter we learn to link to third-party publishers of XML content. Our goal is to acquire and manipulate content in...

Sockets In this chapter we learn to create a full socket system connecting our own remote server and our own Flash clients. The last...

XML Sockets In the last chapter we built a system on XML sockets. We created a server-side application that accepted a connection request and...

In completing the book, we can be proud. As we started our last project, we were able to reach into a rather large toolchest....