Framework Question

[Daniel Roop]

I am currently looking into the new alpha of Model-Glue Flex and I was
curious if anyone had any pointers. I typically use Fusebox on the
coldufsion side, and up till now I have been using cairngorm for Flex,
so I was curious what everyone else was using.

Happy Indepenence Day!

[Brian LeGros]

@Dan

I can't comment much on the new MG : Flex framework, but I will say
that I really like what I'm seeing thus far. Some of the suggestions
in the quick-start in terms of architecture, I don't feel so
comfortable with (i.e. - coupling the models used by a controller with
the controller itself), but overall I think it's a great step in the
right direction of getting rid of boiler plate code like we see in
other Flex frameworks.

As far as CF goes, I like Fusebox. MG, Mach-II, and ColdBox are all
good solutions too, I think it just comes down to preference at the
end of the day ;)

[Adam Fortuna]

When it comes to Flex frameworks I'm still getting my head around
Cairngorm as you might know, but I'm curious to see how similar
MG:Flex will be to MG: CF. That would certainly lower the learning
curve on it for MG shops and get more CF programmers using Flex
frameworks (not to say they aren't already, but it's just be an
obivous transition).

On the CF side of things I'd really like to see CF on Wheels hit 1.0.
As far as I know, COW, ColdBox and FB 5.5 are the 3 frameworks that
allow you to write your controllers based on the incoming action
without having to script it in xml or some equivalent, and that is
certainly a nice timesaver all the way through a project. One thing
I've never been much of a fan of those is most framework add-ons and
plugins. I suppose if I was dedicated to one framework I'd be more
open to the idea, but until that point it feels more like a tie in to
one. But at least any of the controller frameworks can work with any
of the ORM frameworks which can work with any of the DI frameworks; so
it's just a matter of preference for the project after that. If I had
to pick I'd probably go with COW/Reactor/CS for a project as a whole
though.

[maxim.porges]

I find this kind of interesting. I haven't finished messing around
with the Flex framework I was talking about cooking up on my blog, but
it sounds like I arrived at a similar conclusion to Joe with regard to
controllers bound to the models that they manage. I still haven't
looked at the MG:Flex stuff yet though, so I guess that is the next
logical step.

- max