Flex MVC Frameworks [closed]

Answer 1

I am using (and recommend) Swiz framework. It's not as complex and PureMVC, but it gets the job done. Moreover, it's a IoC container, and I like IoC.

I never used Mate, so I can't comment on that. But I do recommend against Cairngorm. Cairngorm is said to be open source, but it's really not supported well by the community. It's release cycle is also slow. I've been waiting FOREVER for Navigation Library to come out of beta.

Answer 2

Cairngorm is easy to use and well documented: http://www.cairngormdocs.org/

I recommend the Cairngorm Diagram Explorer and the classic article about Cairngorm.

I was new to Flex when I learned Cairngorm but found it useful and easy to learn with the above.

Answer 3

MATE is the way to go.A framework which does what a framework should do. De-coupled architecture Simple Small foot print Efficiency

Answer 4

Check out Robotlegs.

"It provides the glue that your application needs to easily function in a decoupled way. Through the use of automated metadata based dependency injection Robotlegs removes boilerplate code in an application. By promoting loose coupling and avoiding the use of Singletons and statics in the framework Robotlegs can help you write code that is highly testable."

Answer 5

I have worked on cairngorm and mate frameworks. I started with cairngorm framework. It is good to work but difficult to understand in the beginning. It handles event dispatching cleverly. You can dispatch events from classes itself and it will be taken care of by the framework wired command classes. There is single repository for storing the data, so easy to handle the data. It is a singleton class. Once you get a hold of the framework, work is easier. Mate on other hand is tag based framework. It is an event driven framework, so all events are handled in the eventmap file. It does event listening, property injection, and many other things from this class itself. You can dispatch events from the classes by passing it the instance of framework event dispatcher. You don't have to use singleton class like cairngorm in this. You can bind property in a class to views using directly using property injection so no need to use any singleton class. In mate all the classes and view are free from framework code, so it is decoupled framework. It is easy to move components from one place to other.

Answer 6

I recommend to use MATE for developing greats and complicated projects,like other frameworks, Mate addresses the common architectural concerns in Flex such as event handling, data binding, and asynchronous processing, but the most important goal is that it's only tag-based so it's very easy to use it in our Flex Applications.