A core goal of PureMVC is to be language-independent. So while most languages have powerful native features that set them apart, PureMVC chooses to use common conventions that can be found in most every language. The chief influences in PureMVC’s original implementation stemmed from client-side concerns in a web-based, client-server environment: specifically Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) based upon Adobe’s Flash Platform. While the author specialized in Flex development, there was a huge community of Flash developers that could also benefit from the framework if it did not rely on any classes specific to the Flex API. And at the time, an ActionScript engine called Tamarin was poised to fuel the n....