Flex just got a lot easier
May 9, 2007 · No Comments
I went to Rob Gonda's talk on Cairngorm at cf.Objective() and, whilst it was an excellent talk, it just added more weight to my feelings about Cairngorm: it's a lot of work.
Joe Rinehart showed off a new project at cf.Objective(), which aims to brings the ease of use of Model-Glue to Flex. He showed me an example that he'd converted from Cairngorm to his nascent "MG:F" and it was definitely an improvement. I was still bothered by all the repetitive code, left over from Cairngorm, for handling the model - endless delegate object creation, asynchronous token management, responders and result / fault handlers. Boring, tedious, monotonous boilerplate code. There had to be a better way.
I asked Joe if he thought he could come up with some sort of automagic proxy mechanism to make all that code just go away. Being Joe, of course he could!
Read about the big changes to MG:F that introduce autoproxy functionality around the service layer so that you do a lot less typing! Very nice!
I think this is going to be a great project that will really help a lot of ColdFusion developers get into Flex (me included!).
Tags: cfobjective · coldfusion · flex
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