Cairngorm Extensions and Other Flex Frameworks

Univeral Mind released some very helpful Cairngorm Extensions awhile back. I wanted to let folks know they are out there and are definitely worth checking out. They cover some frequently requested Cairngorm enhancements. The Cairngorm steering committee is busy now working on enhancing Cairngorm and addressing some of these areas. More news on that later.

Check out the great Flex framework overview article FrameworkQuest on InsideRIA for some excellent in depth coverage of some Flex frameworks. The author also has a great Cairngorm/RIA article (Anatomy of a Flex RIA), though some of his examples are a little dated and not best practice, good primer. Following are some MVC architectures you may want to check out as well:

• Parsely - This framework is interesting allowing the use of Presentation Models and dependency injection.
  
• Mate
• Swiz
• Prana
• Finally, check out Tom Sugden's IoC Framework discussion.  Professional Flex 3 is a great book with lots of good examples. Tom contributed some Cairngorm chapters.