In my post a few days ago, I mentioned that that Scott Delap and his team were using the Swiz MVC framework. I decided to try it out, and I have to say it looks quite promising. The Swiz tagline is “Brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex”, and it was actually pretty easy to set up. The framework is similar to the way Java Spring works with autowiring, so if you’re familiar with that you’ll probably like Swiz.
I’ve only read the docs and tried the demo out so far, but it’s a very interesting candidate for future Flex projects. It’s quite easy to separate the views and controllers from the business logic and using both MXML and ActionScript views seems to work fine. Swiz really gets the job done.
Seems better than PureMVC
I’ve tested the PureMVC framework earlier and kind of liked it, but developing with PureMVC gets quite repetitive and you produce quite a lot of boilerplate code. I like it better when the MVC framework easily guides you towards a proper structure, without having to do too much work to get there.
Also, there seem to be pretty good community activity in the Swiz Google Code project.
It seems like the best MVC framework candidate so far!
Dan Orlando has made a few good posts about the Swiz framework:
http://danorlando.com/?tag=swiz