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I recently came across a framework for as3 called "Parsley". I haven't heard about this framework yet. Can anyone give me a quick overview about this framework. I have worked with Cairgorm and the Mate framework for as3 before. Also a comparison with Mate framework.

midhunhk
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Parsley is a micro-architecture much like Cairngorm. It's strengths are in dependency injection/inversion of control (DI/IoC) and decoupled messaging. It is significantly more lightweight and unobtrusive than older implementations of Cairngorm. It is quite popular, actually, much like Robot Legs.

In fact, as of Cairngorm v3, Cairngorm it was re-written to be an extension of Parsley.

Brian Genisio
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  • In Cairngorm v3, it depends upon Parsley, so you get your IoC via Parsley. – Brian Genisio May 27 '11 at 10:23
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    Bottom line is this: It's robust, easy to use, easy to architect and it's been used to create several record breakingly huge Flex applications. 'nuff said :) – J_A_X May 27 '11 at 14:27
  • Agreed, @J_A_X. I like it a lot. It is small and not very opinionated, so I can use whatever pattern I want. I like using it a lot :) – Brian Genisio May 27 '11 at 14:59