1.7. Final Framework Selection Considerations

If you are a Flex architect or a development manager in charge of selecting a third-party Flex framework, ask yourself these questions: “Do I want to use intelligent objects that encapsulate most of the framework functionality, or do I prefer to deal with simple objects and do explicit coding for each instance? Will I have senior developers in the project team? Do I need to modularize the application to be developed? Do I trust code generators?”

After answering these questions, take a detailed look at the implementation of several frameworks, assess the benefits each of them brings to your application, and pick the most appealing one that will give you confidence that it—given the project’s size/nature/deliverables/available human resources—has the least probability of failing.