Spring ActionScript 0.7 Released
Dear Community,
I'm pleased to announce that the Spring ActionScript 0.7 release is now available.
This is the first official release after switching from the Prana Framework to Spring ActionScript. Note that this release does not contain the Cairngorm and PureMVC extensions since these will later be released as separate extension libraries to the framework.
Some of the major changes and enhancements include:
Reflection API is now AS3Reflect
The reflection API is now provided as a separate project named AS3Reflect. This was a demand from several developers that wanted to use the reflection classes without having to use the whole Spring ActionScript codebase. For more info, please see http://code.google.com/p/as3reflect/
MVCS Support
Inspired by the MVCS principles that Joe Berkovitz describes, we created some experimental classes to support the MVCS workflow. Combining these principles with the IoC container of Spring ActionScript is actually very powerfull. Especially if you incorporate a presentation pattern like Presentation Model, you get maximum flexibility and simplicity by autowiring presentation models from the application context into the view layer of your application. I really recommend reading the MVCS and Presentation Model/Autowiring parts of a previous blog post I wrote about this.
IoC Container
We have improved many things in the IoC container and added support for new things like parent and dependant objects. We will continue to improve the core container as we work towards a 1.0 release and will add support for new tags and attributes based on community feedback. So be sure to get in touch with and give us your feedback.
If you feel like helping us out, we could certainly use your help. This project is entirely created on a volunteer basis and in our spare (and limited) free time so needless to say that the more people, the faster we can deliver new releases and guarantee the quality of the framework. So if you think you have someting to offer, be it as a developer, tester, documentation writer, sample creator, ... please contact me or leave something in the comments. All help is more than welcome.
Enjoy this release and have fun coding!
