That's a tough one. The best advise I can give you think about your commands, 
naming conventions and sub-folders ahead of time. Especially for Commands. 
 
Cairngorm does scale, and it looks the same for large apps as it does for small 
apps. However, what that means you can easily end up with thousands of Command 
.as files in the same folder and lot's of names for commands that don't make 
sense (I'm sure they did when you wrote them). You can also help this by 
merging similar commands together, but that requires a lot of advance planning 
too.
 
Personally my favorite part of cairngorm are the ServiceDelegates, but if your 
not careful the commands can get out of hand.
 
If you can break you app up into smaller components. Say turn 300 forms into 5 
smaller apps with 50-100 forms each. then it might not be so bad. I've even 
gone further by creating an app with a single Navigation movie and an IFrame, 
and then loaded lot's of smaller apps in the IFrame as needed.
 
---nimer
 
P.S. I'm in the consulting business now. If you need help let me know.


----- Original Message ----
From: Wally Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Flex <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:05:07 AM
Subject: Re: Application folder structure ( was Re: Need help with Flex APP 
generator )


One of the projects we are looking at is a large Paradox/Delphi system with 
over 300 forms.  Our client would like to convert the entire system "as is" to 
the Flex RIA with a ColdFusion backend.  We may be able to split the system 
into a series of separate sub-applications but there will still be a large 
number of forms in each project.  

I am trying to get a handle on how to organize such a beast.  How to define the 
Cairngorm systems and directories.  So far, all the Cairngorm examples have 
been for small systems (4-15 forms).  Supposedly Cairngorm scales for larger 
applications but I have seen no examples or papers showing how it scales for 
big systems (50+ forms).   The number of separate files in a large system will 
be huge with Cairngorm.  Keeping a handle on where functions are kept will be a 
large task in itself.



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