Category Archives: Frameworks

MAX Frameworks Session: One Application, Four Implementations (Code Available)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: October 19, 2009
This year at MAX, I organized a “Flex Frameworks” session called “Using Flex Frameworks to build Data Driven Applications”. I wanted to stay away from a high level / rhetorical debate or panel. I also did not want a session aimed at proclaiming a (subjective) winner. What I had in mind was a pragmatic [...]
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Don’t miss the “Flex Frameworks” session at MAX

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: August 7, 2009
I’ve been working on putting together what should be a fun and informative session at MAX this year. The session is called: “Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data-Driven Applications”. This is a 3 hour BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session. The idea is to look at four versions of the exact same application: each version built [...]
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Building a Flex Application with the Parsley Framework

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 16, 2009
After my recent explorations of “Swiz”, and “Spring ActionScript” (1,2,3), I decided to take the new version of the Parsley framework for a test drive, and build the Parsley version of inSync: the simple Contact Management application I often use to try out and demonstrate different features and techniques in Flex and Adobe AIR. Parsley is [...]
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The “Spring ActionScript” Framework – Part 2: Autowiring

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 12, 2009
In the first part of this series, we looked at how the “Spring ActionScript” framework can help you externalize the configuration and the wiring of your components, and how you can easily obtain configured objects using applicationContext.getObject(). In this second part, we will discuss how you can make these objects available to the views of your [...]
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