Hi Gavin funny you should post this, Our (small) team is too as part 2 of the app is built (part 1 was CF/DHTML)
the first thoughts were the frameworks ARP Vs Cairngorm. some of the considerations I've been researching into: - ARP "seems" more lightweight than Cairngorm (although this is deceptive: see this exchange between Jesse Warden and Steve Webster of IterationTwo... http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11725.html) - traditionally anything we write for our particular app is full of niggly logic *everywhere*. Nothing is straightforward and it's a constant battle to correctly identify, encapsulate and (hopefully) abstract the logic. Because of that I suspect that the "viewHelper" class will be unnecessary 90% of the time but the 10% it's needed will be a lifesaver. Cairngorm 1, ARP 0. - is there a real need in the app for such a heavy duty framework as these? Is there something simplier that will do the job (any suggestions welcome)? Cairngorm seems to have it's ancestery from the many J2EE Spring ideas and as such is suited for enterprise development (many people, many tasks). It's probably worth the debate whether a team of 4 within the same room (like us) qualifies and would get anything out of such a framework. - I'd like to throw up the fact that it's a *remoting* app and as such there's CF layers (or PHP or .NET) between the AS2 classes and the database. For our app we can't avoid logic right down to the DAO/CRUD methods (so for us the DAO's are more than just the API to the database - it's a shame when you want to use code generation straight off the schema). this last point about how many layers might be worth exploring: your 3-tier MVC might end up as many more layers if you consider the flash part of it as the view + the remoting facade + the controler that talks to + the model (beans/BO/DAO's) after that (that is, if your remoting facade doesn't directly talk to the DAO's ) I'm not an actionscript guru. I haven't a lot of answers. but I am trying to get some ideas kicked around because I'm in a similar boat to you at the moment and can't see the wood for the trees... > Any ideas?? just these 2c worth barry.b On 9/27/05, Gavin Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm just about to embark on a large Flash Remoting project and I was > wondering what people's thoughts and advice would be for a suitable > framework? > > The key features would need to be performance, scalability and > maintainability. > > Any ideas?? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gavin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the > email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting > (www.cfxhosting.com). > > CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon > http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
