Monthly Archives: July 2009

Unit Testing: IoC/DI, Robotlegs and FlexUnit 4

I’ve been reviewing the various IoC containers available for Flex/Actionscript. One of the benefits of IoC and DI is that it greatly facilitates unit testing. By injecting our dependencies into our applications actors, we are effectively isolating them from the … Continue reading

Robotlegs AS3: A Dependency Injection Driven MVCS Framework for Flash/Flex – Inspired by PureMVC

robotlegs.org robotlegs best practices The quest for a Dependency Injection container continues. The most recent stop on this exploration of the available options has been Robotlegs. Robotlegs AS3 is a DI driven MVCS framework for Flash/Flex inspired by PureMVC. Being … Continue reading

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Flex using the Parsley Application Framework – Part 2

This is the second part in a series exploring Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection containers available for Flex. In the first part of the series we discussed what IoC and DI are and how they can benefit our applications. … Continue reading

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection in Flex using the Parsley Application Framework – Part 1

The Inversion of Control (IoC) design principle and the related Dependency Injection (DI) design pattern have been around for several years. In the Java world, popular frameworks such as Spring make heavy use of these concepts. With the introduction of … Continue reading