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Skinning and Components in Flex 4's Spark Architecture

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Summary: Allowing developers and designers to work together on the same Flex project is a key theme of the open-source Flex 4 SDK. An important enabler of designer-developer workflow in Flex 4 is a new component architecture, Spark, that separates the visual elements of a Flex component from other component logic. This article describes the basic principles of the Spark architecture, and how Spark makes it easier for developers and designers to work together.

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Most recent reply: August 30, 2009 6:51 AM by Markus

Frank

Posts: 135 / Nickname: fsommers / Registered: January 19, 2002 7:24 AM

Skinning and Components in Flex 4's Spark Architecture

August 11, 2009 5:30 AM

This article describes the basic principles of the Spark architecture, and how Spark makes it easier for developers and designers to work together.

http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_spark.html

What do you think of Flex's new component architecture?

Jakob

Posts: 1 / Nickname: jjenkov / Registered: October 14, 2003 4:40 AM

Re: Skinning and Components in Flex 4's Spark Architecture

August 17, 2009 10:58 PM

This kind of separation between "looks" and "structure" (children etc.) is exactly what I have been waiting for in a UI framework for years!

I was impressed with Flex 3, but Flex 4 proves that Adobe more than any other company understand the visual element of software.

And no, I am not an Adobe employee, or paid to say this. I am merely a Java developer who is disappointed with Swing and SWT.

Markus

Posts: 1 / Nickname: thenob / Registered: August 30, 2009 1:41 AM

Re: Skinning and Components in Flex 4's Spark Architecture

August 30, 2009 6:51 AM

Interesting article! Thank you!

The file format is called "FXG" however. :)