Comments on: Introducing Prana: IoC Container for AS3

By: Ries van Twisk

Ries van Twisk — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:42 +0000

What does Prana really trying to solve???

Ries

By: TK

TK — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:56:49 +0000

This is absolutely genius. I have been considering putting together an AS3 IoC container for a while now and I’m glad to see that someone beat me to the punch

Seriously though, thank you so much for this excellent contribution to AS3. While some developers might overlook this, IoC is critical for large-scale RIA’s with external dependencies and properties that should be handled by injection. Much gratitude,

– TK

PS: Is Prana dependent on Cairngorm? I still haven’t given Prana a whirl yet, but I develop in strict AS3 w/o use of the Flex Framework so I want to know if I can use Prana.

By: Varun Rathore

Varun Rathore — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:34:38 +0000

Love ur work .
Keep the good work hope to see this thing on widescale, i loved the (recursively) defining properties .

Thanks a lot

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:13:12 +0000

Loving the work! Really impressed )

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:37:51 +0000

Hi FlapFlap,

I heard of LowRA but didn’t really check it out till you commented here. It seems that LowRA is much more than an IoC container. The core goal of Prana is to provide a solid IoC container, based on successful implementations like Java Spring, and offer additional configuration support for the different application frameworks out there.

Furthermore, I also read your post on the LowRA list and wanted to make some things clear:
- Prana is not based on Cairngorm, but offers support for developers using Cairngorm by providing configuration options using the IoC container. It is important to know this as I think it may quickly become a general misconception of what Prana actually is and what it is capable of.
- The current version of Prana is not 0.03 but 0.3. I also think we can change the alpha to beta by now.

I will be keeping an eye on LowRA and thanks for commenting.

By: Flapflap

Flapflap — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:03:29 +0000

Hi there,
Interresting, do you know LowRA and PixIOC, inversion of control projetcts made by Francis Bourre ?
They have a very interresting feature of plugin, you can create your application by extending a Pluxgin class that allow IOC but also a MVC+C for each plugin and a channel communication between plugins.
Have you planned same features ?

By: shaun

shaun — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:22:35 +0000

Nice work. I might have to give it a whirl soon.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:16:18 +0000

@Theo: yes that is the approach I’m using right now. Note though that in the service locator example it is not needed since all the classes are already compiled in the swf because they are referenced in the services.mxml file. In my new post on the FrontController, the commands need to be referenced so they get compiled.

By: Theo

Theo — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:29:54 +0000

Interesting. But I’m interested in how you deal with including the classes referenced in the applicationContext.xml into the SWF. Do you have to reference each class in the application to make sure that it is included?