Now that I can officially talk about Cairngorm 3, I thought I'd put some of my thoughts down (more for my future reference, but feel free to follow along). Alex Uhlmann officially announced the release of Cairngorm 3 beta on October 5th, and from my...
June 3, 2009 | In: cairngorm, design patterns, flex
Purpose The intended purpose for the AbstractEvent class in Cairngorm was three-fold: Reduce the number of files needed to manage business events by organizing Events into domains Implement a callback feature so that a view can specify another...
June 3, 2009 | In: cairngorm, design patterns, flex
Purpose The intended purpose for the AbstractCommand class in Cairngorm is three-fold: Further implementation of a callback feature - in conjunction with the AbstractEvent - so that a view can specify other actions to perform upon the successful...
April 7, 2009 | In: actionscript, cairngorm, flex
Application Design 201 Granularity is a well-known topic in software development. Another common concept is encapsulation. There's books, magazine articles, and blog posts about these topics going back decades (well, not the blog posts). One...
March 31, 2009 | In: cairngorm, design patterns, flex
Related Posts Abstract Commands Basic Cairngorm Commands In the base implementation of the Cairngorm micro-architecture, events and commands are mapped on a 1-1 basis. For every invoker (event) you have to specify one command in your...