shaun smith

It’s pretty easy to link directly to a line of code in your GitHub repo:

robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/blob/master/src/org/robotlegs/core/IContextProvider.as#L16

Don’t do that you naughty sausage! Your codebase will evolve (if all goes well), and line 16 will be replaced by a newer, shinier string of characters. Or, in this case, it’ll point to something that no longer exists.

This, on the other hand, is more likely to stick around to haunt its author (me):

robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/blob/v1.1.2/src/org/robotlegs/core/IContextProvider.as#L16

Select a tag before you link to your fancy code (“Switch Tags” under GitHub‘s “Source” menu).

What?

• RobotLegs is an Architectural (or Structural) Action Script 3 Framework.
• It provides a mechanism for wiring objects together.
• It promotes a usage pattern for keeping your code loosely coupled and easy to test.
• It has a narrow scope: wiring.

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Things have been rolling along quite nicely on the RobotLegs front lately. Joel Hooks put together two useful examples, check ‘em out:

• RobotLegs Image Gallery Demo
• RobotLegs and FlexUnit 4

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The State Of The Game

There are some great Flash and Flex application frameworks out there right now. Mate, Swiz and PureMVC (update: and Parsley!) stand out. The authors of these frameworks realized that the Flash Platform is different enough to the JVM to warrant a fresh approach to application design.

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