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Features of Flex

The following table lists details about the Flex feature set. Subsequent chapters in this book
describes these features in detail.
Feature
Containers
Controls
Data modeling Defines the
Data
communication
services
Description
Defines a region of the
Flash Player drawing
surface and controls the
layout for everything in
the container, including
other containers and
controls.
Form-based controls
that handle user
interactions and display
data that can be directly
manipulated by the user.
representation of
application data on the
client.
Connects to server data
using a set of
communications
services.
Details
Accordion
Box
Canvas
ControlBar
DividedBox
Form
Grid
Alert
Button
CheckBox
ComboBox
DataGrid
DateChooser
DateField
HorizontalList
HRule
HSlider
HScrollBar
Image
Label
Link
List
Loader
MediaController
MediaDisplay
MediaPlayback
• Data model for storing application data.
• Data binding for unidirectional or bidirectional binding.
to UI controls, and predefined and custom data
formatters.
• Data validation to validate data model.
• Web services for SOAP messages transmitted over
HTTP. Supports both RPC and document operations,
and concurrent web service requests.
• HTTP service for accessing XML over HTTP and
HTTPS.
• Remote Java objects let you call methods on local or
remote objects (Java objects, JavaBeans, EJBs,
JNDI objects) using SOAP or AMF protocols.
Link Bar
Panel
TabBar
TabNavigator
Tile
TitleWindow
ViewStack
Menu
MenuBar
NumericStepper
ProgressBar
RadioButton
ScrollBars
SimpleButton
Slider
Spacer
Text
TextArea
TextInput
TileList
ToolTip
Tree
VRule
VSlider
VScrollBar
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