Adobe Flex - Cairngorm
Suggested Intro Materials & Resources
David Tucker :: Getting Started With Cairngorm :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4 :: Part 5
Jeffry Houser :: Learning Cairngorm :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4 :: Part 5
Jesse Warden :: 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm
Neil Webb :: Cairngorm For Beginners :: Covers version 2.2 :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3
Steven Webster :: Why I think you shouldn’t use Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: So What’s Happening Next with Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture :: Written for version .99 but most of the concepts are still applicable :: An excellent overview by one of the framework’s primary authors
- Part 1 :: Introducing Cairngorm
- Part 2 :: Keeping State on the Client
- Part 3 :: Architecting the View
- Part 4 :: Feature-Driven Development
- Part 5 :: Server-Side Integration
- Part 6 :: Rapid and Consistent Development with Cairngorm and Flex
Alex Uhlmann :: Dashboard Example – “How Business Logic Can Manage Views” :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4
Chen Bekor :: ModifiedCairngormStore Example :: Uses mock delegates so that you can explore the example with a Java server, etc. :: Cairngorm 2.1 version :: Cairngorm 2.2.1 version
AIR & Cairngorm
Eric Feminella :: AIR Cairngorm (AIR extensions for Cairngorm)
Eric Feminella :: AIR Cairngorm 2.0
Alternatives To Cairngorm
See the Architecture section of our Flex Code page.
Articles
Alex Uhlmann :: Best Practice: Code Behind versus MXML Script Blocks versus View Helper
Alex Uhlmann :: Cairngorm 2 – Overview and Migration Path
Alex Uhlmann :: Creating a Popup in a Cairngorm Architecture
Alex Uhlmann :: Dashboard Example – “How Business Logic Can Manage Views” :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4
Alistair McLeod :: Cairngorm – Commands and Responders
Alistair McLeod :: Cairngorm 2.2 – Cairngorm Enterprise
Alistair McLeod :: Cairngorm 2.2 – Self Dispatching Events
Alistair McLeod :: Cairngorm 2.2 – Front Controller Weak References
Christophe Herreman :: Chaining commands in Cairngorm with Prana
Christophe Herreman :: Prana enabled Cairngorm Store :: Uses Christophe’s Prana framework to apply the Inversion of Control (IoC) design pattern to configure the business delegates and the service locator in this example
Darren Houle :: Flex Application Design For Cairngorm
Darron Schall :: Convert Generic Objects into Class Instances :: “Makes it easier to employ the ValueObject pattern”
Darron Schall :: Why I don’t use Cairngorm’s Responder :: Explains why Cairngorm 2.1 now uses IResponder instead
Derrick Grigg :: Cairngorm, Commands, Views and Harikiri
Eric Feminella :: AIR Cairngorm
Eric Feminella :: Cairngorm 2.1 Released :: Includes details on changes made in 2.1
Eric Feminella :: IResponder and Cairngorm
Eric Feminella :: Quick Tip: Cairngorm Best Practice :: Avoiding Event type collisions
Jesse Warden :: 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm
Joe Rinehart :: Cairngorm for Coldfusion/MG Developers :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4 :: Part 5
Kaleb Pederson :: Announcing the Flex UndoRedo Framework
Neil Webb :: Cairngorm For Beginners :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3
Neil Webb :: Cairngorm Webservice & HTTPService Examples
Peter Martin :: XDoclet2 + AS3 + Ant + Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture
- Part 1 :: Introducing Cairngorm
- Part 2 :: Keeping State on the Client
- Part 3 :: Architecting the View
- Part 4 :: Feature-Driven Development
- Part 5 :: Server-Side Integration
- Part 6 :: Rapid and Consistent Development with Cairngorm and Flex
Steven Webster :: So What’s Happening Next with Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: Why I think you shouldn’t use Cairngorm
Thomas Burleson :: Cairngorm View Notifications
Tony Hillerson :: Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA :: A nine-part series (at last count) on creating a Flex-Cairngorm-LCDS-EJB-MySQL project using Maven, Ant, Cairngen, FlexUnit, and other tools.
AIR
Eric Feminella :: AIR Cairngorm
Automated Code Generation
See the Automated Code Generation section on our Testing, Debugging & Agile Methods page.
Blogs & Websites
Diagrams
Docs
Adobe Open Source Cairngorm Page
Downloads
Adobe Open Source Cairngorm Downloads page
Universal Mind Cairngorm Extensions :: Google Code
Event & Command Sequences
Christophe Herreman :: Chaining commands in Cairngorm with Prana
Universal Mind Cairngorm has an EventGenerator class
Examples
Adobe :: CairngormStore 2.0
Adobe :: CairngormStore 2.1 :: Updated for Cairngorm 2.1 by Renaun Erickson
Adobe :: CairngormStore 2.1 :: Modified by Chen Bekor so that it uses stub BusinessDelegates and doesn’t require Flex Data Services :: The easiest version to get up and running quickly
Adobe :: CairngormLogin
Adobe :: Darren Houle :: CafeTownsend Multi-view contact management example
Alex Uhlmann :: Dashboard Example – “How Business Logic Can Manage Views” :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4
Benoit Hediard :: PhonesCairngorm2 :: A Cairngorm 2 version of Ben Forta’s CF/Flex Phone Selector sample application
Chen Bekor :: ModifiedCairngormStore :: Uses mock delegates so that you can explore the example with a Java server, etc. :: Cairngorm 2.1 version :: Cairngorm 2.2.1 version
Derek Wischusen :: Issue Tracker Sample App :: Included in the Flex Ruby On Rails SDK :: Uses Cairngorm 2.1
Douglas Knudsen :: CMOrgChart :: More info
Evan Gifford :: The Cairngorm Diagram’s example code
Jesse Warden :: HTTPService & Cairngorm 2.2
Kevin Kazmierczak :: SQLAdmin :: Open source on SourceForge
Nico Lierman :: Cairngorm Hello World
Renaun Erickson :: All in One – Cairngorm Store Example (ColdFusion, AMFPHP, AMFPHP 1.9, and WebServices)
Sam Shrefler :: Adobe Flex 2.0 + Cairngorm + Fluorine + ASP.NET
Sam Williams :: Flex Cairngorm code example
Flash Cairngorm
Robin Hilliard :: Write Your Next Flex Application – Using Flash :: (Cairngorm 0.95)
Robin Hilliard :: Flex/Cairngorm Sample Code Available :: (Cairngorm 0.95)
Modules
Victor Rubba :: Can Cairngorm and Modules play nice? :: Update
Victor Rubba :: Loading Multiple Independent Instances of a Module
Universal Mind Extensions
Universal Mind Cairngorm Extensions :: Google Code
The Flex Show – Episode 41: Universal Mind Cairngorm Extensions w/ Thomas Burleson
Gabriel Montagne :: Some notes on EventGenerator
Thomas Burleson :: Cairngorm View Notifications
With Rails
Daniel Wanja :: Cairngorm Generators
Derek Wischusen :: Flex Cairngorm/WebORB Issue Tracker Tutorial :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4
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A:Adobe Flex 3 is Adobe’s development of a free open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns and includes an Eclipse™ based development environment; advanced data services; and a fast, enterprise-class client runtime based on ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player software. Flex enables enterprises to create highly interactive, expressive applications that dramatically enhance the user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and user productivity.
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A:You can use Flex 3 to create a wide range of highly interactive, expressive applications. For example, a data visualization application built in Flex can pull data from multiple back-end sources and display it visually. Business users can drill down into the data for deeper insight and even change the data and have it automatically updated on the back end. A product configuration application can help customers navigate the process of selecting or customizing products online. A self-service application can guide customers through an address change or help employees complete an otherwise complicated, multiple-step benefits enrollment process.
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Adobe :: FlexStore :: More info
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Amit Gupta :: E41ST :: Amazon/Library mashup :: More info
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