Robotlegs IoC/DI Flex Framework Examples Updated

Live demos are available on robotlegs.org here

Acme Widget Factory:
The Acme Widget Factory is modular example and deals with loading multiple modules into a shell and communicating between those modules. The shell and each module has its own context.

Lazy Stack:
Lazy Stack is an example of deferred instantiation of Flex components, and how this is handled by the Robotlegs framework.

Wheres Window:
Where’s Window is a simple example to show how to mediate and communicate between a set of instances of the same view component that have individual mediators. In this case, the view components are windows in an AIR application. This uses a proxy to register and manage the currently open unique windows. I am going to write a more detailed breakdown of this particular example soon.

The Elevator Pitch

Robotlegs is an IoC/DI container that is modeled on the PureMVC application structure. It is designed to be MVCS, model-view-controller-service, providing metadata dependency injection across these layers. While following the well organized approach of PureMVC, it eliminates the use of framework singletons and takes full advantage of the Flash Platform to keep the dreaded boiler plate code to a minimum. Eliminating these singletons makes unit testing and TDD much easier, which can be a real struggle when trying to isolate classes for testing where these singleton dependencies exist. Robotlegs is fast, clean, and perhaps more importantly fun to work with. There is a smorgasbord of architectural frameworks available for Flex/AS3, but Robotlegs is worth a look even if you are sick of looking at architectural frameworks.
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  • https://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/ shaun

    Hey Joel, and most recently added, a plain ActionScript demo: HelloFlash

  • https://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/ shaun

    Hey Joel, and most recently added, a plain ActionScript demo: HelloFlash