[Fling] Fling and As2lib IoC Container

[John Grden]

hey, some good news about creating accounts - I got ahold of the repository
folks and they gave us free accounts so we can add sam and simon now.

I'll do that as soon as I get some other things taken care of this morning

JG

PS> welcome to Fling Simon!!  very cool

On 5/23/06, Chris Allen <mrchrisallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> --
> Simon Wacker
> www.simonwacker.com
> www.as2lib.org
> www.hq-heilbronn.de
> www.flik-flak.de
>



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