Warning: This is long and probably VERY boring.. unless you are an AS3 junkie, and you’re interested in so called “lightweight micro-architectural frameworks” for Flash and Flex.
A couple of weeks ago I played around with Mate and Swiz. I already knew a little about Dependency Injection (in theory anyway), but playing with those two frameworks really drove the point home: applications are potentially MUCH easier to write, and much more flexible, when you take advantage of Dependency Injection. Read more…
Categories: Banter, Pijin, Robotlegs Tags: actionscript, architecture, as3, flash, flex, mate, puremvc, Robotlegs, smartypants-ioc, spring, swiz
February 24th, 2009
shaun
For the most part, Pijin development has been going pretty well. Maciek came down from London in December and we managed to come up with solutions for most of the tough conceptual challenges that were worrying us. Read more…
Categories: Pijin Tags: actionscript, as3, flash, flex, mate, milestones, Pijin, puremvc, Robotlegs, smartypants-ioc, swiz
I’ve been using PureMVC for my Flash/Flex applications for quite a while now, and have generally found it to work quite well. Besides the obviously annoying abundance of boiler-plate code, it does a decent job of separating concerns, and has helped me to build better applications.
Lately, however, I’ve been building an application for which PureMVC has turned out to be a pretty poor fit. The term that some people have used to describe this kind of application is “Document-Based”.
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