What does Cairngorm do?
October 5, 2007
If you use Flex, then Cairngorm makes your life easier. Cairngorm makes your Flex programming more responsible, easier to maintain and extend and it promotes more efficient teamwork.
But what does it do?
Well, Cairngorm is a library (a compiled flash swf) of classes and interfaces that are plumbed together to allow the programmer to plug-in commands (control logic) and interfaces (views) in an easy, efficient manner. By using Cairngorm you are leveraging hundreds of thousands of hours of developer time figuring out what patterns work best for enterprise applications. The Adobe team used guidelines from the J2EE Enterprise Design Pattern catalog to create a very powerful framework (some say micro-architecture) for Flex distributed applications. This framework is logical so it is easy to learn and more importantly easy to teach.
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