The Flex community is an amazing, thriving ecosystem of developers, solutions, open-source code, libraries and frameworks, and technical blogs. When I review a public or open-source AS3 library, often the API has been created only for th AS3 programmer… as such it is intended to be used programmatically.[1] Unfortunately, most API developers neglect to consider how their API can be used in the declarative form (Declarative forms are used as “tags” in HTML and MXML classes). This article could have also been titled “The amazing benefits of Declarative Programming!”...

For over 5 years, I have been a Cairngorm proponent and evangelist. During the last 6 months I have discovered a new framework passion called “Swiz.” Inversion of control, metadata processors, dependency injection… these are just some of the amazing features available in the Swiz framework. With the release of Swiz 1.0rc1, several developers asked questions regarding the best way to use the BabelFx Framework (aka l10nInjection) to add multi-language features to Swiz RIA applications. So here is the modified version of the Swiz Flex 4 CafeTownsend application… now with...