Yes, it can. Multiple SWFs. Tradeoffs are increased potential for errors, a bit more architecture work needed up front, and the potential that the Flex frameworks isn't fully designed for this case, so you might run into some tricky (but not unsolvable) issues. (It works pretty well for pure-AS apps.)
My suggestion is to start building your app with interfaces connecting the modules, and try to avoid concrete implementation dependencies. After that, by the time we ship, I should have an article out describing how to set things up. -rg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Sobut > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 11:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Large App Architecture > > We're looking at possibly developing a large Flex application > which could have 50+ screens > and lots of sub views on those screens. > > We will have users with various connection speeds, including > dialup, so we'd like to minimize > initial download time of the app. > > We also have the situation where some user types use only a > subset of the screens. > > Our concern is that deployed as a monolithic app, initial > load times could be painful over > slow connections. > > Can a Flex application be architected so that modules would > be programatically loaded as > needed? Would this be done as separate .swf's? Are there > tradeoffs in this type of approach? > > Thanks in advance. > > Tom > > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
