Brian Kotek:
Inversion of Control

In case you missed it, the Swiz team has made Swiz 2.0 Beta available. It includes the much-anticipated Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) features that have been in the works for a long time. AOP is incredibly powerful, and having done a lot of work with Spring, ColdSpring, and Spring.NET, it is hard to overstate the potential impact of AOP for Flash.

I also want to give a shout out to Maxim Porges, who spearheaded the effort to bring true bytecode generation to Flash with his Loom project. Without his effort this just wouldn't be happening.

For now, you can find full details on the new AOP features in the Swiz blog! As things get more stable, you can expect the Swiz documentation to incorporate this as well.

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First just a quick note that I have updated the Swiz Console to version 1.2, which maintains parity with Swiz version 1.2. This update adds a tab to show views that have been processed with ViewAdded and ViewRemoved. As always, you can grab the swc or the source at my GitHub repository.

In other news, Chris Scott put up a blog entry on the Swiz site with an overview of aspect-oriented programming in AS3. One might speculate that this is a lead-in to some very cool stuff coming in the Swiz framework, if one were so inclined...;-)

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Just a very quick entry to say that the Swiz Team has pushed version 1.2.0 out the door! This has a few small tweaks and bug fixes, but also adds the ViewAdded and ViewRemoved metadata tags to support the use of the View Mediator pattern.

We also did a bit of consolidation related to conditional compilation. We still have two versions, but one is now just for the Flex 4.x SDK (including the 4.5 Mobile SDK), and the other just for the Flex 3.x SDK. Get it while it's hot!

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I put together a 30 minute screencast on creating a simple Flex application using the Swiz framework. This also shows off some of the great Swiz integration that comes with Sourcemate 3.0, as well as using the Swiz Console for debugging and runtime introspection.

If folks find this helpful, I'll try to do some more. So please let me know what you think! Thanks.

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This is a few days late but maybe that is a good thing since several folks blogged and tweeted about it on Monday in case anyone missed it. The Swiz team has released version 1.1.0 of the framework.

This is mainly a bug fix release, but we've also added a version of the swc that works with the Flex 4.5 Mobile SDK. The release notes have full details. So give Swiz a try with your new mobile apps and ask any questions or provide some feedback on the mailing list!

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