http://www.simonwacker.com Simon Wacker's Thoughts on Programming Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As2ant 2.1 has just been released. Many bugs have been fixed, especially in the unit test task, and a new task has been added: Swfsli. The swfsli task can be used to inject script limit tags into SWFs to alter the maximum recursion depth and/or the script timeout. Full list of ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/07/13/as2ant-21/ Just released As2ant 2.0 (Apache Ant Tasks for Flash). Best new feature is the unit test task. It executes a unit test swf and prints the result directly to the console (command line, eclipse console, ...). As2lib Unit Test and AsUnit are directly supported, but you may plug-in any other ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/06/11/as2ant-20-with-unit-test-task/ As mentioned in my previous article, the IoC container for Flash supports two XML dialects: a simple one to wire up business objects, and another less verbose one to build user interfaces (with any user interface framework or component library, including in-house ones, that follow some common coding practices). Following is ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/05/24/xml-dialect-for-flash-user-interfaces/ After taking a closer look at dependency injection and discussing some theory about inversion of control containers in the previous articles, we are now going to examine the As2lib Inversion of Control Container which is largely inspired by the Spring Framework. Note that I use the name bean to refer to ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/05/22/ioc-container-for-flash/ An Inversion of Control container is an infrastructural backbone for applications by providing services like lifecycle management, lookup, configuration and dependency resolution. Lifecycle management: The lifecycle of application objects is managed by the container. The container is able to create new objects, to populate them (applying property values), to invoke initialization ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/05/20/inversion-of-control-containers/ Applications consist of multiple classes which collaborate with each other. For example an instance of class A needs an instance of class B and C to do its job; in other words, class A depends on class B and C; class B and C are thus dependencies of class A. There ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/05/19/dependency-injection/ You can now specify the swfmill xml directly in the task. The advantages are that you have only one file to maintain (build.xml) and that you can use ant properties within the swfmill xml. <swf src="${src.dir}/com/simonwacker/ant/Sample.as" dest="${build.dir}/sample.swf"> <xml> <![CDATA[ <movie width="300" height="100" ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/03/05/as2ant-15-specify-swfmill-xml-within-task/ As2ant 1.0 has just been released! Best new features are the new As2api task and the custom-arguments support for the Mtasc task. Full list of changes: [+] org.as2lib.ant.As2api Added support for HTML API documentation generation via As2api. [!] org.as2lib.ant.Mtasc Fixed bug with package-argument: Use relative paths! [+] org.as2lib.ant.Mtasc Added support for custom arguments: <argument name="-myargument" value="myvalue"/> [~] org.as2lib.ant.Mtasc Ignore ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2006/02/27/as2ant-10-with-as2api-task/ A new version of the as2lib is finally available for download. Major changes are: A completely rewritten File framework that offers various file format representations, like properties files, and support for loading and parsing these files - org.as2lib.io.file Support for configuring the Logging framework via XML - org.as2lib.env.log.parser ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2005/10/13/as2lib-093-new-version/ Changes include: * Better readability of generated commandline output. * Support for local variable inference: -infer * Support for package-attribute: -pack * New way of specifying sources, via XML The new way of specifying sources via XML is especially important. Because this allows you to write a xml log configuration for ... http://www.simonwacker.com/weblog/2005/10/13/as2ant-10-beta-released/