Flex Frameworks

Some say that if a technology has a lot of frameworks, then it is a sign of maturity. You might argue with that, but still I think it is interesting to know what are the available frameworks in the Flex/Flash world.

This is work in progress, thus if you know other frameworks, please post a comment or send me an email.

MVC frameworks and Dependency Injection

Articles to get some idea about what these frameworks offer:

Testing frameworks and code coverage

Building and Continue Integration

Flash 3D Engines

Server side libraries/frameworks for Flex

PHP:

Java:

ColdFusion:

.NET:

Ruby on Rails:

Python:

Utils:

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34 Responses to “Flex Frameworks”

  1. Flex and ActionScript frameworks and libraries : Mihai CORLAN [http://corlan.org/2009/02/23/flex-and-actionscript-frameworks-and-libraries/] on February 23rd, 2009 4:20 pm

    [...] Flex Frameworks [...]

  2. Enrique Duvos on February 23rd, 2009 6:10 pm

    Good post!!!

  3. Laurent [http://www.laurent.untereiner.com] on February 23rd, 2009 7:21 pm

    one more… Flite http://code.google.com/p/fliteframework/

  4. Gustavo on February 23rd, 2009 7:59 pm

    We ask ourselves, what is the combination that Mihai prefers.. For working in an Enterprise Project using PHP.. ;)

  5. Constantiner [http://riapriority.com/en/blogs/] on February 23rd, 2009 9:26 pm

    Asmock – http://asmock.sourceforge.net/
    Mock4as – http://code.google.com/p/mock4as/

    The first project is really great!

  6. Mihai Corlan on February 23rd, 2009 9:33 pm

    @Gustavo

    I am working on an article to give my thoughts on the existent PHP libraries for remoting… not finished yet.

  7. Christian H. Mosveen on February 24th, 2009 12:36 am

    Good list, Mihai. Another functional testing framework is FunFX, which was presented at Flex Camp Oslo: http://funfx.rubyforge.org/

  8. Carlos Rovira [http://www.carlosrovira.com] on February 24th, 2009 11:51 am

    Great recopilation! :)

    Another one: RIAlity, our Advanced Flex/JEE arquitecture.

    type: commercial

    urls:

    http://www.carlosrovira.com/#/products/
    http://www.carlosrovira.com/blog/index.php?s=riality

    Hope you like it!

    :)

    Carlos Rovira

  9. laurent [http://www.laurent.untereiner.com] on February 25th, 2009 1:24 am

    Another: Clear Toolkit http://is.gd/kJnQ

  10. Hidden Place Blog » Blog Archive » Frameworks para Flex/Flash [http://www.hiddenplace.org/blog/?p=1821] on February 25th, 2009 10:11 pm

    [...] http://corlan.org/flex-frameworks/ [...]

  11. shaun [http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/] on April 26th, 2009 6:30 pm

    Two more:

    SmartyPants-IOC (Guice-like Dependency Injection):

    RobotLegs AS3 (PureMVC-like MVCS Framework)

  12. flex mvc frameworks « Fiji Ecuador Seattle Greece Montana [http://fijiaaron.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/flex-mvc-frameworks/] on May 12th, 2009 1:35 am

    [...] http://corlan.org/flex-frameworks/ [...]

  13. Martin Eiler [http://eiler.dk] on May 13th, 2009 7:14 pm

    http://www.gaiaflashframework.com

  14. Bogdan [http://NoNeYeT] on June 18th, 2009 11:45 pm

    Hello there! I’ve seen these days your ‘J2EE/Flex database application generation’. Simple and nice. I am having some truble doing the same stuff, an ugly NullPointer right at the end (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=data_3.html). PS: nice page.

  15. Kris on June 30th, 2009 12:05 pm

    Mockito for flex http://bitbucket.org/loomis/mockito-flex/ a simpler mocking

  16. Carlos on September 2nd, 2009 8:56 pm

    http://www.hydramvc.com/

  17. Martyn on September 2nd, 2009 9:06 pm

    CopperCube – 3D engine for Flash and Windows
    http://www.ambiera.com/coppercube/index.html

  18. Paul Robertson [http://probertson.com] on November 19th, 2009 9:09 pm

    Yes, definitely don’t forget RobotLegs:
    http://robotlegs.org/

    (Shaun mentioned it above but didn’t provide a link.)

    For some idea of popularity (or at least the ability for the frameworks to campaign for votes):
    http://stacyyoung.org/2009/10/17/flexas3-framework-poll-results/

  19. Tyler Wright [http://www.xtyler.com] on November 19th, 2009 9:18 pm

    The Flight Framework is an MVC framework focused on simplicity and utility:

    http://www.flightxd.com/flightframework

    - looks like there’s a flite framework mentioned as an extension to PureMVC? Not to be confused with the MVC framework Flight Framework.

  20. Flex Framework « Techie Note [http://techienote.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/flex-framework/] on November 19th, 2009 10:25 pm

    [...] Flex Framework Posted on November 19, 2009 by mylblog http://corlan.org/flex-frameworks/ [...]

  21. Shailesh Mangal [http://www.getzephyr.com] on November 19th, 2009 11:43 pm

    Declarative graphics framework
    http://www.degrafa.org/

  22. Marty Pitt [http://martypitt.wordpress.com] on November 20th, 2009 1:06 am

    dpHibernate – http://code.google.com/p/dphibernate/ Allows for lazy loading across BlazeDS and Hibernate. New features recently added allow for simple entity persistence from the Flex Client to Hibernate.

  23. Robert Penner [http://robertpenner.com] on November 20th, 2009 1:12 am

    Robotlegs: DI, IoC and MVCS micro-architecture
    http://robotlegs.org

    Mockito-Flex: mocking framework
    http://bitbucket.org/loomis/mockito-flex/wiki/Home

    Hamcrest-AS3: matchers toolkit for unit testing and mocking
    http://github.com/drewbourne/hamcrest-as3

  24. David Jumeau [http://blog.geminilearning.com] on November 20th, 2009 1:16 am

    Wow! I agree, this is a good post. Now I am getting a headache about what to learn. Lord, help me!

    Oh yeah, I also use the casalib framework @http://www.casalib.org

  25. Joel Hooks [http://joelhooks.com] on November 20th, 2009 1:17 am

    Robotlegs – http://robotlegs.org

  26. Peter Moelgaard [http://blog.petermolgaard.com] on November 20th, 2009 1:40 am

    hehehe… another example proving that the beauty of standards is that there are so many to choose from… anyways, nice recap… you should create something other than a blog-post to capture the continouos development in this area… perhaps create and help maintain this entry…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flex-frameworks&action=edit

    Btw… thanks for a nice evening the other night in Bucharest.

  27. Luke Bayes [http://projectsprouts.org] on November 20th, 2009 1:52 am

    Another one for your “Building and Continuous Integration” section…

    http://projectsprouts.org

    It makes SWF development suck a lot less.

  28. Chris Velevitch on November 20th, 2009 3:45 am

    “Selenium (Open Source) – API for Selenium” yes, but what is Selenium? It’s API for it’s self?

  29. Flex Frameworks | .:: klr20mg ::. Una dosis diaria de .... [http://klr20mg.com/2009/11/19/flex-frameworks/] on November 20th, 2009 7:48 am

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  30. akash on December 7th, 2009 5:17 pm

    Hi,

    Is there any content management system that you can recommend for the Flex development ?

    Thanks,

  31. Ricos on December 13th, 2009 7:46 pm

    FreeSpin3D
    http://www.freespin3d.com/
    FreeSpin3D™ Extension for Adobe® Flash® and Flex® allows rich media designers and developers to easily create advanced interactive 3D content for Adobe Flash in minutes. FreeSpin3D is the only real-time 3D technology that utilizes the Adobe Flash animation timeline and provides live visual feedback of the 3D model position and rotation on the Flash stage. By utilizing the Adobe Flash designer toolset and providing built-in interactive 3D behaviors that can be applied with a single mouse click, FreeSpin3D is simple enough for beginning designers, while the FreeSpin3D advanced API allows Flash and Flex ActionScript developers to push the limits of 3D delivery over the web.

  32. Ricos on December 13th, 2009 7:49 pm

    Yogurt 3d
    http://www.yogurt3d.com
    Yogurt3D Game Engine (Y3D) is a 3D Flash engine that works inside your browser via Adobe Flash Player and doesn’t require users to download plug-ins. Yogurt3D’s core part, SwiftGL, is based on an OpenGL compatible framework and will be free software. This means developers who already program in OpenGL or are familiar with APIs can easily develop 3D Flash games and applications. Y3D supports major 3D modeling and animation platforms and enables user-generated content such as avatars, interiors, objects and animations.

  33. Ricos on December 13th, 2009 7:59 pm

    - Flashdraw3D
    http://code.google.com/p/flashdraw3d/
    This library is designed to implement the same features as the 2D drawing API. Except in 3D.

    - Infinity3D
    http://www.infinity3d-engine.com/ru/

    -WireEngine3D
    http://www.3key.at/we3d/forum/

    -AS3Mod
    (vertex animation – cross-engine modifier library for flash 3d)
    http://www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/03/as3dmod/

  34. vapes [http://vapes.na.by] on December 16th, 2009 8:13 pm

    Merge with this one ;)
    http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=83

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