Prototyping is tricky. It sounds like you're putting in most of
the app building work into your prototype. Is that correct?
Prototypes are supposed to be fast and as far as I can tell,
setting up Cairngorm is not a trivial task.
Once you start using a framework, aren't you then starting to think
about how to architect the app not what it's supposed to do. I've
had horrible results with architecting the app before the client
'see's it's functionality. I've always been torn on whether a
framework should be used to prototype or not.
I haven't found the right balance yet.
At 01:51 AM 3/5/2007, akhilbhaskar wrote:
I've actually been using Cairngorm
(<http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm>http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm)
as a
micro-architecture for my apps. Once I have most of my "back-end"
architecture in place, I simply create a Mock Business Delegate and
populate the values in that class using my real DTOs. Once you know
where the values are actually coming from, simply swap out your mock
object with the real HTTPService/DataService,etc call.
-Akhil Bhaskar
Amentra, Inc. (<http://www.amentra.com>http://www.amentra.com)
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> I've been hard coding sample data into ArrayCollections.
>
> I bet there are better ways, though.
>
>
>
> At 05:19 PM 3/2/2007, Clarke Bishop wrote:
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> >I've become a big believer in iterative development and in starting
> >my Flex apps by working on the U/I. Then, only after I can freeze
> >the U/I, do I start on the backend.
> >
> >It's easy enough to drag some controls into an application, but I'm
> >not as sure the best ways to populate the controls with sample data.
> >What's the best practice? And what way makes it easiest to modify
> >the sample data and ultimately switch to developing the back end
> >with minimum impact on my Flex code?
> >
> >If any of you have any other tips for a good Flex development
> >process, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, too!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> > Clarke
> >
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