Chapter 21. Development Strategies

As any developer who dives into a project quickly realizes, there is a difference between understanding a framework or a library or even a programming language and knowing the best way to put those tools to work to create an application. This chapter provides some common tips for creating components and structuring an application with Flex 3, the Flex Builder IDE, and the Flash CS3 IDE. These recipes run the gamut—from tips to help you develop a component to structure an application, to using the Cairngorm framework. Although some recipes cover items within the Flex SDK (such as the Flex Component Kit), most focus on how to integrate the Flash IDE and other tools to help you develop components, or how to use other frameworks (such as PureMVC and the Cairngorm framework) to help you develop applications.