So after reading “Professional Cairngorm” I decided that I would try using Cairngorm on my next project. Well that project is is the final stages of completion and I’d like to share my thoughts. The project was a dynamically driven Flex app embedded in a web-browser that could also run on AIR. The application was [...]
Archive for the ‘Spring AS’ Category
3 Aug
Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
The Spring Actionscript project is maturing and as they do, they keep teasing apart the entire project. So I am now upgrading from 0.7 to 0.8 and if you are to, here is what you can expect. (change log here) a) If you were using the older AS3Reflect library, well now they moved that again [...]
2 Apr
Spring AS & Prana woes with blank prop or constructor args
UPDATE: The bug described here appears to be fixed as of 0.8 So I’ve been doing a fair amount of work with Spring Actionscript v0.7.1 (formally the Prana Framework). In AS3 you can define methods and/or constructors that take optional arguments. Optional arguments must always be defined after the required arguments and they are noted [...]
24 Jan
Strange IMPORT failure in Spring AS
So I’ve started to think about splitting up the main applicationContext.xml file in one of my projects. The current one is getting quite large. Spring AS has the ability to import bean/object definitions from another XML file of your choice such as the following example where my context defines one object “yObject” and then declares [...]
5 Dec
Prana Framework is now under the Spring umbrella
Great news and I’ve been hoping for this for quite a while. Spring has taken the Prana Framework under its wing and added it as an official Spring extension called Spring Actionscript. Here is another post about this. When I first got into developing in AS3/Flex this past summer I immediately began looking for some [...]
