Comments on: AS3 Dependency Injection and [Autowire]

By: Flex Frameworks – PuremVC, Mate, Cairngorm and Robotlegs | Wet Feet - Online Marketing and Technology Blog

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:18:19 +0000

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By: Benoit Jadinon

Benoit Jadinon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:06:09 +0000

A Release ! A Release ! A Release !

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Flexible RIA Architecture: PureMVC and Mate « shaun smith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:19:32 +0000

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By: Simen

Simen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:39:28 +0000

As you hint towards, none of the DI frameworks seem to fit the AS3/Flex bill perfectly, I personally think all the frameworks borrow too much inspiration from existing frameworks that were written for other languages.

I’ve thought about writing a similar framework to DI-AS3 where you have constructor and setter injection plus Guice style annotations, let me know if you’re considering the herculian effort and I’d be more than happy to contribute!

By: RobotLegs - An AS3 MVCS framework for Flash and Flex Applications inspired by PureMVC « shaun smith

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:08:00 +0000

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By: shaun

shaun — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:50:50 +0000

Hi Simen,

Ah yes, lot’s of great info on Misko’s blog!

Funnily enough, I’m thinking of looking for a different DI framework once I’ve finished the RobotLegs demo – but not so much because of the setter injection (or lack of constructor injection), but rather because SmartyPants has a couple of Flex dependencies that make it a little bigger than it could be if those parts were “opt-in”.

Initially I was put off by the lack of constructor injection, but in practice I’m finding that it’s quite convenient for my framework – having to funnel all dependencies through a constructor (and then set private properties) requires quite a bit of extra coding.

Whilst it’s definitely a safer approach to use constructor injection (keeping your properties private and ensuring you don’t forget to inject things) I’m actually quite enjoying just declaring my dependencies as public properties at the top of my classes.

I’m hoping to release RobotLegs in the next couple of hours… not thoroughly documented.. and certainly not a 1.0 release.. but it should be enough to get going with if you have experience with PureMVC.

Cheers,

By: Simen

Simen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:21:43 +0000

Really curious about Robot Legs, I’ve been reading a lot of Misko Hevery lately and it really inspired me to redo our in-house framework with lose coupling using DI.

Only thing that put me off about SmartyPants is that it doesn’t (yet?) support Constructor Injection, and that again can lead to stuff being executed out of order; curiously enough, the year old project DI-AS3 seems to support it using a simpler syntax.

By: shaun

shaun — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:48 +0000

Hi Rob,

I’ve been keeping an eye on Fabrication for quite a while, but haven’t actually built any real-world projects with it. It definitely looks like it does a good job of minimizing PureMVC boilerplate. Next time I have to build a PureMVC app I’ll certainly give it a spin.

Cheers,

By: Rob McCardle

Rob McCardle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:37:11 +0000

Nice roundup, cheers for sharing. Have you seen Fabrication?

Reflexive Mediator Notification gets rid of most of the aspects of PureMVC that you don’t like, it really does rock.

Code of Doom has more on this:
http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/01/27/fabrication-puremvc-cleaned-up/

The Google Code docs are also well worth a read http://code.google.com/p/fabrication/

I like it a lot and intent to post some of my work with it soon. Cheerio

By: AS3 Dependency Injection Framework: SmartyPantsIOC - Released! « shaun smith

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:52:27 +0000

[...] guess that means that it’s time for me to release RobotLegs – an MVCS micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications inspired by PureMVC, Mate and Swiz! But [...]