david mccuskey.com » flex http://davidmccuskey.com my slice of the Internet Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:58:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Trying to do MVC in pure Flex http://davidmccuskey.com/2009/02/trying-to-do-mvc-in-pure-flex/ http://davidmccuskey.com/2009/02/trying-to-do-mvc-in-pure-flex/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:37:32 +0000 david http://blog.davidmccuskey.com/?p=108 I was looking for some examples of how to structure a Flex application using MVC, but using only the Flex framework. In the long run I think I’ll be using PureMVC, but right now I am anxious to get my app working and don’t want to have to learn Yet Another Technology just to get there. Besides, shouldn’t Flex be able to stand on its own?

I found what I was looking for in the article “An architectural blueprint for Flex applications” written by Joe Berkovitz. In it he talks about a way in which he architects Flex applications using pure Flex/Actionscript constructs.

Being a Flex newbie, I learned a lot from his article like how to pass variables to your own MXML tags and even customize them using Actionscript. His architecture also solves an issue I was having with Event messaging/bubbling due to the fact that it only works automatically on DisplayObject components. His design also has an interesting way of handling multiple data-services as well as the operations required for handling service communication.

Source code for the project is available in the article. I would recommended downloading it and browsing through the files.

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