Enterprise Framework

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Josh,

I am currently reviewing frameworks for a large project. DI seems to
be a very hot topic at the moment.

My question: Is Smartypants a replacement for Cairngorm or PureMVC or
is it used in conjunction with other frameworks?

Thanks,

Jeff

[Josh McDonald]

Hi Jeff,

SmartyPants isn't a replacement for Cairngorm or PureMVC, although it could be used to cut down on the boilerplate and dependencies required to lookup various singletons required by those frameworks. Unless I'm mistaken, neither Cairngorm nor PureMVC offer any sort of dependency injection, but other frameworks such as Mate and Swiz provide some injection abilities, and Spring-AS3 (formerly Prana) does have a complete injector framework which is more-or-less comprarable in features to SmartyPants, but is modelled after Spring, whereas SmartyPants is "inspired by" Guice, although the DSL and annotation syntax is naturally rather different being in AS3 not Java 5.

I hope that helps :)

Cheers,
-Josh

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