Comments on: Architectural Atrocities, part 9: Cairngorm’s Model Locator pattern

By: Flex MVC Frameworks « « Programmers Goodies Programmers Goodies

Flex MVC Frameworks « « Programmers Goodies Programmers Goodies — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:49:53 +0000

[...] that are tightly coupled to global variables. Nuff said (but if you’re interested, here are some more of my thoughts, and here [...]

By: Learning Cairngorm 3, Part III: Some fiddling, some architecture « journeysinflexland

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:59:43 +0000

[...] only question now is where to put it. In Cairngorm 2, I’d just create a ModelLocator subclass and put the loggedInUser variable in there. I’d do this thinking “what a [...]

By: Iconara » Quoted in “Professional Cairngorm”

Iconara » Quoted in “Professional Cairngorm” — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:24 +0000

[...] in a book with the (contradictory) title Professional Cairngorm. It’s the now (in)famous Architectural Atrocities 9: Cairngorm’s Model Locator Pattern again. It’s not the best quote to take from that post, but beggars can’t be [...]

By: martzobg

martzobg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:01:44 +0000

I think cairngorm side by side with spring as sounds like a pretty good solution. What do you think? ;)

By: Newton

Newton — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:24:26 +0000

Hi, I am not a regular user of CG yet..I used to keep my code very simple by using simple design patterns. I just looked in to their classes & interfaces as well as the example files.. To some extent I am with you( when you mention about the ModelLocator). I really not in support of making the model to be a singleton. But some times it’s helpful & I am happy with the results rather than caring about using an anti-pattern. BTW, you have put some strong logic-quite appreciable

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:14:10 +0000

@Jack9 you miss the point. It’s not that I find interface names beginning with “I” ugly, it’s that I believe that if you name them that way you don’t know what they are for.

By: Jack9

Jack9 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:38:54 +0000

What’s in a name?

Name decoration is not required, nor is it bad for any reason other than it peeves you. I bet you seeth over curly brace placement. Get over it.

By: Architectural Atrocities, part 10: Cairngorm’s Service Locator / Iconara

Architectural Atrocities, part 10: Cairngorm’s Service Locator / Iconara — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:46:36 +0000

[...] The last post stirred up quite some debate and I’d like to thank everyone who commented on the post. I’m amazed that people still post comments (by coincidence to the day) seven months later. [...]

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:07:08 +0000

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108889/objectively-what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-cairngorm-over-puremvc#109038

i honestly can say it really is the most objective review of the various frameworks available to flex developers.

you convinced me…

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +0000

I bet everyone is thinking geez which framework should i use

They probably do. But I’m not sure it would help that if I said “look, Cairngorm is rubbish, you should all use X instead”, because if you can’t see that Cairngorm is a collection of anti-patterns, how would you know that X is better?

However, I can see the point that without also knowing why other frameworks are better you can’t get to the point where you could actually make an informed decision for yourself.

You can find a few things I’ve written on the subject at Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37043/flex-mvc-frameworks#37566 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108889/objectively-what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-cairngorm-over-puremvc#109038

You can also find a few things I’ve written about the more general subject of how think about software architecture in Flex here:

http://code.google.com/p/mate-examples/wiki/DocumentBasedExampleIntro http://mate.asfusion.com/forums/topic.php?id=252 http://mate.asfusion.com/forums/topic.php?id=217 http://mate.asfusion.com/forums/topic.php?id=177 http://mate.asfusion.com/forums/topic.php?id=172 http://mate.asfusion.com/forums/topic.php?id=203

From the last few links you may have deduced my application framework of choice. To me it’s not a religious issue; I’m using Mate because the alternatives are, frankly, really bad. I’ve outlined some of the problems of the major Flex application frameworks in the Stack Overflow posts linked to above, so I won’t repeat them here — but suffice to say that for me the choice is not a hard one. I don’t mean to say that I use Mate because it was the least bad, I really do like it and very much prefer it over writing something myself, but I also don’t think that there is any competition. The issues I have with most other Flex application frameworks I’ve looked at (and I try to keep up) are at a fundamental level, they are not details and not something that can easily be fixed.