We've used Cairngorm to this point, but we had a good talk with Aral at MXDU comparing the two frameworks and what I've said about ARP is based on this discussion. Try the list Aral posted today in another Flexcoders thread. I need to try out some ARP ideas in a project to sort out my thinking about the two frameworks - but as Steven said ARP provides more guidance around what to do in Flash with the views, as it is originally a Flash framework. Probably the only issue I had with the demo Flex app Aral showed me was the deep purity of the mxml code - as a pragmatic (slothfull? :-) Flex programmer I am rather fond of using a bit more actionscript in my mxml, but then I understand where Aral is coming from - and in Flash I would never put code in my fla. I would be happy to recommend either framework to a client.
Cheers,
Robin
http://www.rocketboots.com.au
On 03/03/2005, at 1:29 PM, Mehdi, Agha wrote:
Not that I have a whole lot to complain about Flash mainly because I just rolled out a fairly complicated Enterprise New Business Intake app for my Company in Flash Professional, which integrates with existing internal DMS, Financial, CRM, Workflow and Intranet Portal systems but if I had the choice at that time I would've done it in Flex. Having said that, I'd still like to use Flash for small, not complicated mini apps where Flex is not the option for any reasons (just like Robin said). Ever since I got this taste of Cairngorm with Flex, I find it hard to convince myself to go with Flash without a framework as elegant as Cairngorm. That was my main reason to see if it was possible to use it with Flash.
I have installed ARP but didn't really get a chance to look into it. May be what I need is to develop something with it to see how good it serves me. No matter how tempted I am, I won't ask any questions about ARP implementation here. Robin, if you use ARP, will you be able to guide me to some of the stuff, which is a good knowledge base for ARP?
Thanks
-- Agha
