Well following up on my little plug for Scott Barnes (mossyblog.com) and his new framework, I thought I better post some sort of review on the presentation.

The framework is based closely on Mach-II. It assists in structuring your code in such a way that it improves maintainability, separation of view logic from presentation and further allows for decoupling of components. The framework uses a single config XML based file that contains your screens, events, listeners, properties and so forth, in a manor familiar to Cold Fusion developers who use mach-ii.

*Rather than get into the nitty gritty of Mach-II, take a look at the following links:

Mach-II home page
Mach-II @ corfield.org

To quote Scott, he told me that although Cairngorm (the MVC architecture from iteration::two) was a great discipline in dividing logic from presentation, the developers he works with are familiar with Mach-II, so it just seemed right to help flatten their Flex learning curve. If they could focus on their problem domain rather than learning to architect a Flex application he could see the framework proving its benefits.

By no means is this the right solution, and by no means is this the only solution. SynergyFLEX, being yet another framework, aims to assist team based development, reduce maintenance time/costs, help make building applications from the ground up alot easier, and make it simpler to add new functionality or improve on existing code/components.

Over the coming weeks (or maybe longer) there should hopefully be a public download available, or possibly even a sourceforge project. But don’t get your hopes up just yet because the framework is still in beta. If you are interested in finding out more about SynergyFLEX please drop us a line.

A recording of the presentation can be viewed at the following url:
http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p39821495

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5. Building RIA’s with Flex and Cairngorm