In a previous article, I blogged about Flex i18n[1] and an “Inversion of Control” (IOC) approach to radically simplify localization issues within your Flex solutions. That article discussed the issues with the current, traditional localization implementations [used in Flex applications] and then presented the new LocalizationMap solution. In this Part 2 on Flex l10n solutions, I offer a video tutorial, a demo of a Registration application localized to support Spanish and English, and an architecture diagram of LocalizationMap usages. Also included with the live Flex demo is source...

As Flex continues to grow as the choice RIA technology, many developers start investigating and apply Java design patterns to Flex implementations. Similar to Java Struts, Cairngorm is a MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework – endorsed by Adobe – that is widely popular within the community. One of issues that frequently confuses, blocks, or complicates Cairngorm implementations is the issue of “view notifications”. Every Cairngorm developer ask the following question at some point: How should the Cairngorm business layer best communicate with the Presentation layer?...