Binding consists of a few different technologies and techniques. Accessing properties based on string “keys” is called Key-Value Coding (KVC).

Observing property changes using string “keys” is called Key-Value Observing (KVO).

More information can be found on these topics at the following URLs:

Key-Value Coding Programming Guide

Key-Value Observing Programming Guide

A string which is of the same name as an object’s property. Eg. age, name, value.

A dot separated list of multiple keys. For example, if we had a Person object, structured as follows:

{name:String, mom:Person, dad:Person}

A key path to a person’s mom’s name would be.

person.mom.name

For binding to work with your code, you must use one of the following patterns. <key> is the name of the property. Type is the type of your property.

• Getter:

function <key>():Type;

or (note uppercased key)

function is<Key>():Type;

or (note uppercased key)

function get<Key>():Type;

• Setter (note the uppercased key)

function set<Key>(n:Type):Void;

If no accessor functions are found for the given key, we attempt to access an internal member named <key>.

• Simple tutorial that shows how to use NSArrayController with an application. However, the author is working mainly with Xcode, and very little Objective-C code is used to implement the bindings.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/06/cocoa.html

• A structured and step-by-step tutorial, with plenty of diagrams and screenshots. Again, mainly works with Xcode.

http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000080.php

• List of Cocoa binding examples. Those of exceptional interest include the Manual Bindings, Graphic Bindings and Combatants, which establishes bindings programmatically.

http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html

• Pure Objective-C tutorial on binding, however, it is in German.
  
  Of particular interest would be the section Binding anbieten (no idea what that means) which explicitly uses + exposeBindings and - valueClassForBinding, because they’re are usually passed over due to the use of Interface Builder.

http://www.macentwicklerwelt.net/index.php?title=Cocoa_Bindings_%28Eigene_Bindings_anbieten%29