[Fling] Fwd: Fling and As2lib IoC Container

[Chris Allen]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that Simon Wacker is going to be helping
us create Fling. Please see the information below for more details.
Basically he already has an implementation of Spring's IoC container.

Oh, and Simon, I totally agree that Fling should be as light weight as
possible and not be a direct port of Java Spring. If you would like to
see what we have done up to know, please see our SVN repository here:

http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/fling

Welcome aboard Simon!

-Chris

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Simon Wacker <simon_wacker at gmx.de>
Date: May 23, 2006 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: Fling and As2lib IoC Container
To: Chris Allen <mrchrisallen at gmail.com>


Hi Chris,

waking up in the morning and reading good news: this day must going to
be great! ;)

The bean factory depends only slightly on the rest of the As2lib, so
this part may be ported; but the application context uses other As2lib
parts heavily. But before porting, it may be worthwhile to think about a
more lightweight and performant implementation. While my implementation
is almost a direct clone of the Spring Bean Factory (and Spring calls
itself a lightweight container), this is quite heavyweight in Flash. ;)

I'm on the team! Juppie!

I don't mind if you forward my email.


Cheers,
Simon

Chris Allen wrote:

> Hey Simon,
>
> Great to hear from you!
>
> On 5/22/06, Simon Wacker <simon_wacker at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> just came across the Fling project on OsFlash. I'm myself currently
>> doing the last changes and bug fixes on the as2lib bean factory and
>> application context. I have written some samples and wrote a few
>> articles on my weblog about the topic. The latest article "IoC Container
>> for Flash" also provides a download link for the As2lib Chat (AsWing UI
>> with SmartFoxServer). The other samples can be checked-out from the SVN
>> repository, module "trunk/samples"
>> (http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/as2lib/trunk/samples/); the chat
>> sample uses the latest features.
>>
> Very cool! I will definitely check that out. Man, you are doing some
> outstanding work!
>
>> I'm still interested in helping with the Fling project, so let me know
>> if I can do anything.
>
>
> Yes of course we would love to have your help. Perhaps we can look at
> porting the AS2Lib's portion of IoC to our implementation. My main
> concern is to not rely on the AS2Lib core library if at all possible.
> Fling ideally should be able to run on its own with or without AS2Lib,
> ARP or any other library for that matter. We are currently looking
> into removing the dependency on GDispatcher as well.
>
> Anyway, I will include you on the emails with the core team from here
> on out. Welcome to the team. We have completed a really handy
> AssetLoader, and have just started talking about implementing IoC.
>
>>
>> btw. got no reply regarding SpringOne yet (no positive and no negative
>> so I'm still confident)
>
>
> No news is good news I suppose. :-)
>
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Simon
>
>
> Thanks very much for offering to help. It will be great to combine
> resources and deliver a really killer IoC container for Flash. Do you
> mind if I forward your email to our other developers so that I can
> introduce you to them?
>
> -Chris
>
>
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Simon Wacker
www.simonwacker.com
www.as2lib.org
www.hq-heilbronn.de
www.flik-flak.de