Learn new aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques for Flex development. This session begins with an overview of AOP fundamentals to demystify the terminology and advances to discussions on why ActionScript developers may want to utilize these new techniques. Discover the new AOP support in the wildly popular Swiz framework and how it aims to greatly reduce developer barriers by simplifying AOP. Then look at some real examples to understand how AOP works in practice.

Explore some of the most popular Flex and ActionScript 3.0 Architecture and Dependency Injection frameworks, such as Cairngorm, Mate, Parsley, PureMVC, Robotlegs, and Swiz. We'll also discuss what each framework's pros and cons are and which framework makes sense when faced with different architectural designs. You'll also learn which architectural patterns (like Model-View-Controller and Presentation Model) are considered popular in current application design.

Get an intro to the 1.0 release of the Swiz Framework, what metadata processors are and why you should use them, how to build your own custom metadata processor and examples of metadata processors that are already available.

In this session Chris Scott will introduce, Swiz, a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods.