Flex Data Services tutorial error

Question

In the "Before You Begin" section of the Flex Data Services
tutorial in "Getting Started with Flex", the first bullet is
incorrect. It text should be:
"Ensure that you have installed the Flex Data Services Beta 3
release and that you can run the applications in the samples web
application."
The installation instructions are located here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/flex2_installation
The tutorial zip file is located here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/flex2beta1_quickstart_tutorial_zip
- Mike Peterson
Adobe Flex documentation team

Answer 1

Hi, I found some more "issues" with these data services
tutorial.
First of working with the notes example at first I couldn't
get the two browsers to talk to eachother until I found this
comment by funk_sf on the livedocs:
quote:
after some searching, I located a link to the tutorial.zip
here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/flex2beta1_quickstart_tutorial_zip.
i unzip'd the contents into my samples directory so that I had the
following path: C:\fds2\jrun4\servers\default\samples\tutorials
the xml file in WEB-INF for the standalone flexbuilder 2b3 is
located at C:\fds2\resources\config as mentioned in the comments on
the previous page (
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex20beta3/00000129.html)
as for creating the tutorial1.mxml file, i created a new Flex
project with the following settings (this is from memory, so
hopefully i recall all the steps right):
File->New Flex Project
How will you flex application access data? -> Flex Data
Services -> Compile application locally in Flex Builder
root folder: C:\fds2\jrun4\servers\default\samples
root url:
http://localhost:8700/samples/
I left the build paths to their defaults (ie. blank)
named the main application file: tutorial1.mxml
output folder: tutorial
output folder url: [blank]
So I followed his advice, deleted my project and made it in
the samples directory and the notes application started to work, so
all appeared good.
Until I was making the Java example and I'm now faced with
the following errors:
Severity Description Resource In Folder Location Creation
Time Id
2 Definition samples.contact:Contact could not be found.
tutorial2.mxml Tutorials line 8 6 juni 2006 16:36:25 20
Severity Description Resource In Folder Location Creation
Time Id
2 Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:
Contact. tutorial2.mxml Tutorials line 13 6 juni 2006 16:36:25 21
I'm not sure what is happening, I think it can't find the
data service files but I don't know how to make it so that it does
find those files, the manual is still a bit vague on that and when
I try to run this application it just shows a blue (flex) screen.
The code I'm using is straight from the example documentation after
tinkering around for 2 days to get this to work I thought using
original code is the best way to go.
My application tries to run from
http://localhost:8700/samples/bin/tutorial2.html
The documentation states:
Open the following URL in two browser windows:
[L=http://localhost:port/samples/tutorials/tutorial2.mxml
The screenshots in the documentation show:
Window1: /tutorial/tutorial1.mxml
Window2: /dataservice/contact/tutorial_step4.mxml
Now I'm just confused, tutorial1.mxml is my notes application
which was the previous tutorial and there was no mention of a
tutorial_step4.mxml file ?
Someone help me please with where to place these files and
why so I can understand what is happening here.
Thanks :)