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What our customer's say!

"Download the free "Flex Developer Guide" from Adobe's site instead...", This is generally a well written overview book. Its chief problem is that it never gets beyond the basics, and that the "Flex Developer Guide" that Adobe provides for free on their web site is far superior.

"Incorrect example codes", It is a well organized book.
However, some example codes are incorrect.
I find this problem in many of O'Reilly books and am not sure if they test all the source codes before they publish their books.
It is really annoying.


"Really enjoyable introduction to Flex2", Reading the reviews for this book made me nervous about picking it up in the first place, but I'm glad I did. I'm primarily a J2EE developer wanting to get his feet wet in the world of Flex2 RIAs, and the authors seem to have written this just for someone like me. And in that respect, the topics are at the right level of depth - the authors clearly indicate that this is not meant to be used as an API reference.

Flex 2 can be a bit much to bite off, even for experienced programmers, since it sits over a very mature and complex development platform (Flash Player) that has its own established authoring tool. Happily, the authors tend to chart their course firmly through the Flex Framework, avoiding diversions into Flash Player arcana (which some other books either assume you already know, or visit too briefly to be of much help.)

The breadth of topics covered is also awesome - whether its Web services, states/transitions, event dispatching/handling, and the use of the free Flex SDK.

That last one is of particular interest to me since I'm not a fan of the Deux Ex Machina aspects of IDEs, especially when I'm learning a new language/framework. Hence, being able to see how everything fits together using just the Flex SDK and mxmlc is a lot of fun.

I also don't particularly like long, artificial examples that proceed from chapter to chapter, which means that you can't really jump into a topic that interests you without first having read all the previous history of the application being developed. Fortunately here, each chapter can be read by itself, and in any order. In fact, I skipped over many of the UI and media chapters just to get to the web services treatment which is closer to the end.

To summarize - if your background/needs match mine, then this book will be well worth a visit. You may not leave knowing everything, but you'll have the 3000 foot overview which will position you better to ask the right questions, and to determine which topic has the most interest for you. (Of course, you might choose to wait for the Flex 3.0 edition of this book.)

"Great Flex 2 Programming Book", Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex is a great book for more advanced Flex developers. This book covers many important topics like working with UI components, advanced component concepts, working with media and data, client and remote data communication just to name the few. The authors, Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott, are very experienced long-time Flash developers. They are well known in the Flash community, and are among the elite of the Flash development world. Chafic and Joey has been using Flex for a long time and it can be noticed by reader during reading this book which is full of practical leads.

This book is intended for anyone looking to learn more about Flex 2. The authors recognize that the audience for this book represents a very diverse group of people with many different backgrounds. In my opinion this book is a great resource but not for the beginners. Lots of original ActionScript and MXML code examples help reader to look deeper inside Flex 2 internals.

I definitely recommend this book!

"Solid intro to Flex 2", This is a solid, well written into to Flex 2. I would highly recommend this as a starting to learning Flex 2 or 3. In about a week's reading time you will have a well grounded knowledge of what Flex is capable of. After reading this (along with the documentation provided by Adobe) I'd highly recommend: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook; Essential ActionScript 3.0; and Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers.

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"Barely Useful", Just for quick background, I'm an application developer/analyst, and have been for 10+ years. I've taught myself all the languages I know using books, many of them from Oreilly - and I've never yet been disappointed with one of their books until now...

I worked though a great deal of this book, but found I was learning very little. Finally, with deadlines looming, I just started working with Flex Builder, and searching for answers online. At this point I came across Adobe's documentation for Flex - which is extensive - and absolutely beats this book hands-down. Don't waste your money - use the docs on Adobe's site, and you'll be ahead of the game. On a couple of occasions I've reached for this book to get an 'instant answer' - as it was sitting on my desk, and what I need is so simple, it must be both in there - and in the book's index... but I've found each time that the book was of no help at all.

"Very good introduction to Flex", So you're done all of Adobe's online quickstart tutorials for Flex and are looking for something more? This is the book to get! It's a very good starting point for learning Flex. Also, another good one on Flex is Adobe's 'Flex 2 Training from the source'. Between those two books you'll be able to do just about anything in Flex. I also would recommend Oreilly's Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook - if you're needing to know more about the ins and outs of Actionscript.

"this book is not what i thought ", "First of all I do not think this book is for anyone interested in adobe flex ,otherwise it is for people who have a solid ActionScript 2.0 background because Authors does not give much details about fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 , in first time i read this book and it is mini version of adobe flex docs cause the Similarities in chapters of the book and sections of flex Docs . the book fills the gab and Especially in some areas like in chapter 2 authors discuss in details about building flex application using a various of tool sets (Flex SDK "mxml - compc" and Ant).
The main reason i do not like about this book is the code examples , the book does not have a real and practical examples to begin developing in the real world , beside this the code examples is not organized ."

"Not practical . . .", I own a lot of O'Reilly books and I like all of them . . except this one is not what I expected from O'Reilly books.

This books does explain the basics and provide beginners the needed information. But the book is a 'READ MY FEATURES' books, no practical examples, just short snippet codes that are unrelated each chapter. When u start reading everything looks cool. You understand everything, but if u start implementing something, u will get stuck. For example, using xml for datalist providers, i cant really find the information where they tell you where to put the code . .and more importantly, which packages you need to import. Although i figure it out myself, its confusing.

I stopped reading this book, I just browse it to see what features Flex 2 offers, then i better learn on the net, the quick start tutorials provided at the devloper site provides the EXACT information of the book . . even the structure of the discussed information are 80% the same, except they are more practical . .

I hope Flex 3 book will be a better one . . . but this time its a waste of time and money.


"Good Introduction For Beginners - Lacks Complete Code Examples", I've finished working my way through Programming Flex 2. Overall, I found the book a good introduction to Flex 2. The chapters are well written and the various concepts are explained clearly.

However, the code download from O'Reilly for this book is extremely poor. You get approx. 272 code snippet files that are incomplete and badly named. It is very frustrating if you want to actually load one of the chapter examples into Flex Builder to run it yourself. I could not find some of the chapter examples (for example try finding the code for the using HTTPService with ActionScript example given in chapter 16).

If you're an absolute beginner with Flex 2, then this book is a good introduction. But do not expect this book to be a complete reference or to provide examples you can try (unless you are going to type all the code yourself).