PureMVC 1.7 for AS3 is Here!
Cliff Hall just announced the release of PureMVC 1.7 for AS3.
If you haven’t had the opportunity, PureMVC is a great Model-View-Controller based framework. I have only spent a few days with it and I have to say I’m getting an understanding of it faster than my previous attempt to understand Cairngorm. The main benefit I see of this framework over Cairngorm is that Cairngorm focuses too much in Flex. PureMVC’s independence of Flex also means easier programming of AIR applications. Also, Cairngorm’s framework is far too interwoven, with Model code spilling over to Controller code and on and on. PureMVC keeps these areas completely separate but allows them to work with each other through a Facade class middleman. Also, you can also override PureMVC’s default behavior if you don’t like what it’s doing as it has been coded with subclassing in mind. PureMVC is solely an AS3 project and it is presently being ported to a number of other languages.
I have to say that so far PureMVC makes application programming an absolute pleasure.
If you still have doubts, take a look at this beautiful diagram of how PureMVC works.