Hall - ActionScript Developers Guide to PureMVC

Engineering an application that exposes every problem you might run into is impossible, but still we will touch on all the moving parts of the framework. The code for the application (StoryArchitect) we will begin building in the book is packaged within com.futurescale.sa package. Where it is necessary to demonstrate something in code that is not present in the application that is the focus of the book, the text preceding the code will set forth a hypothetical situation, and the example code will be packaged within com.mycompany.myapp package.

ActionScript developers who are interested in, or are already working with, PureMVC will gain usable insights, although Adobe Flex and AIR developers will be best served, as the example application is written with AIR.

You should already have some experience with Adobes ActionScript, Flex, and AIR, Object Oriented Programming (classes, interfaces, inheritance), and your IDE of choice. To fully understand the Value Objects and View Components of the application we will build, you should know at least a little about ActionScripts implicit accessors (getters/setters), XML handling, Flashs event bubbling, and Flex data binding.

Also, while this book speaks directly to an ActionScript/Flex/AIR audience, developers who are using or learning any of the PureMVC ports to other programming languages could certainly use this book as a basis for understanding the framework classes and how they should be used. The Flex and AIR specific sections are when we build View Components, talk to the filesystem or services, and handle XML. But the PureMVC framework roles, responsibilities, and collaborations are universal to all ports, and clarifying them is the real focus of this book. The platform and language are incidental.