What is Swiz?
Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex, AIR, and Flash that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides:
- Inversion of Control / Dependency Injection
- Event handling
- A simple life cycle for asynchronous remote method invocations
- A framework that is decoupled from your application code
- Compatibility with both Flex and non-Flex AS3 projects
In contrast to other major frameworks for Flex, Swiz:
- Imposes no JEE patterns on your code
- No repetitive folder layouts
- No boilerplate code on your development
- Does not require you to extend framework-specific classes
Swiz represents best practices learned from the top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry, enabling Swiz to be simple, lightweight, and extremely productive.
How Do I Get It?
The latest released version is 1.3.1. A zip file containing the SWC, source and ASDocs is here: Swiz 1.3.1 Download and release notes can be found here: Swiz Release Notes
The latest code can always be found on GitHub at http://github.com/swiz/swiz-framework/.
You can also try out the Swiz 2.0.0 Beta, which includes AOP support. More details can be found on the Swiz blog.
Looking for an earlier version of Swiz?
Visualizing Swiz
Sometimes pictures can help solidify an idea better than words can. With that in mind, here are basic representations of two core Swiz features: dependency injection and event handling.
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A Little Help Here?
If you have any questions please join the mailing list. You can also find Swiz on Twitter and Swiz on Facebook.
Swiz is provided under the Apache License 2.0