| <!-- |
| Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more |
| contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
| The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| |
| http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| |
| Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| limitations under the License. |
| --> |
| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> |
| <head> |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> |
| <title>Flex Frameworks</title> |
| |
| <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/garland_favicon.gif" type="image/x-icon" /> |
| <style> |
| body,li,td,h1,h2,h3,p,th,a { |
| font-family: Sans, Arial, Times; |
| font-size: 90%; |
| } |
| </style> |
| </head> |
| |
| |
| <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> |
| <div class="container"> |
| <div class="subpageArticle"> |
| <h1>Using an external framework (microarchitecture) in your Flex Development </h1> |
| <h3>Why use a Framework?</h3> |
| <p>The choice to use a framework is an often highly (and hotly) debated topic. There are numerous external frameworks or 'microarchitectures' currently available that have been developed and should be considered. Since Flex itself is a framework, the term microarchitecture might help clear up some confusion to those new to the subject. Some of the benefits derived from using a microarchitecture during application development are:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Decoupling</li> |
| <li>Abstraction </li> |
| <li>Code reuse</li> |
| <li>Organization</li> |
| <li>Consistency </li> |
| <li>Extensibility</li> |
| <li>Standardization</li> |
| <li>Ease of testing</li> |
| <li>Flexibility</li> |
| <li>Reduction of error</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3>Popular External Framework Choices (in no particular order)</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Cairngorm - based on Model-View-Controller pattern</li> |
| <li>Mate - tag-based, event-driven (message-bus) framework with Dependency Injection </li> |
| <li>Parsley - based on Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection</li> |
| <li>PureMVC - based on Model-View-Controller pattern</li> |
| <li>RobotLegs - based on Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection</li> |
| <li>Swiz - based on Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>More information can be found under each framework item listed in Tour de Flex.</p> |
| <h3>Related Reading</h3> |
| <p>Check out these links for more related reading on using these frameworks:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_framework.html">Adobe Devnet Article on Flex Frameworks</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/max-2009-session-videos.html">InsideRIA Max 2009 Video on Flex Frameworks</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://joelhooks.com/2009/07/12/inversion-of-control-and-dependency-injection-in-flex-using-the-parsley-application-framework-part-1/">Joel Hooks post IoC and Dependency Injection using Parsley</a> |
| <li><a href="http://www.insideria.com/2009/08/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying.html">InsideRIA article by Greg Owen about using Flex Frameworks </a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/02/27/the-flex-application-frameworks-smackdown-sorta/">Flex Framework Comparison by Via Bulatao</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://coenraets.org/blog/2009/07/building-a-flex-application-with-the-parsley-framework/">Building an app with Parsley by Christophe Coenraets</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/frameworkquest-2008-introducti.html">InsideRIA Framework Quest</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.anandvardhan.com/2008/11/13/popular-flex-frameworks/">Popular Flex Frameworks post by Anand Vardhan</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <div class="copyright"> </div> |
| |
| </div> |
| <script type="text/javascript"> |
| var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); |
| document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); |
| </script> |
| <script type="text/javascript"> |
| try { |
| var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-519419-3"); |
| pageTracker._trackPageview(); |
| } catch(err) {}</script> |
| </body> |
| </html> |
| |