Simon Wacker

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 the As2lib logging framework and specify this xml log configuration as source xml in your mtasc or swf tasks.

Check it out yourself!

Download As2ant 1.0 beta.

The next release will contain

* a task for As2api,
* fixes for all the bugs you encounter and
* implementations of new features you need.

I hope you enjoy working with the tasks!

As2ant - Apache Ant Tasks for MTASC and Swfmill - has finally been released officially. It is a sub-project of the As2lib and provides convenient Ant integration for MTASC and Swfmill together with a Swf Task that is a mixture between the Mtasc and Swfmill Tasks and allows for easier usage.

Download As2ant 1.0 alpha.

For further information on Ant take a look at the OSFlash Page: Ant [Open Source Flash]

If you find any errors please report them. If you want a new feature tell me about it. If you need support contact me.
I hope you’ll love working with the tasks.

My speak on yesterday’s stop of the Flashforum Tour ‘05 in Berlin went great, although I had so much to say which I did not came to. For those of you who attended the session and forgot about the download url, or for those who are just interested what I was talking about:

Notes and File Browser Sample Application of the talk “As2lib - Grundlagen und Ausgefallenes (Fundamentals and Fancy Functionalities)”

The sample application shows in a clean way how the As2lib can best be integrated into projects.

Thanks to Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele for organizing the event and giving me the opportunity to speak and thanks to Nico Zimmermann, Daniel Fischer, André Michelle and Matthias Kannengießer for the nice day.

Flashforum Tour 2005 - one of the biggest flash conventions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - takes place from 19. to 27. September 2005. Various talks are held in Berlin, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Muenchen, Zuerich and Wien.

I am myself talking in Berlin on 19. September about fundamental and fancy functionalities of the As2lib.

It is going to be great!

We have just released a new version of the as2lib - Open Source ActionScript 2.0 Library - 0.9.2.

Highlight of this release is the revised Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework.

• WithinPointcut - Capture join points based on their lexical-structure.
• NotPointcut - Capture pointcuts based on characteristics they are not allowed to have.
• ’super’ - Advised join points can use ’super’ now.
• And of course a lot of bug fixes were made.

All Features at a Glance

• Event Handling - org.as2lib.env.event
• Exception Handling - org.as2lib.env.except
• Logging - org.as2lib.env.log
• Overloading - org.as2lib.env.overload
• Reflections - org.as2lib.env.reflect
• Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) - org.as2lib.aop
• Data Holders/Structures and Iterators - org.as2lib.data.holder
• Numerical Types - org.as2lib.data.type
• Connections - org.as2lib.io.conn
• Unit Testing - org.as2lib.test.unit
• Mock Object - org.as2lib.test.mock
• Speed Testing (Profiler) - org.as2lib.test.speed
• Application (Process and Configuration) - org.as2lib.app
• Utilities for Arrays, Strings, Classes, … - org.as2lib.util

Download As2lib Release 0.9.2.

View the API Documentation online.

If you find bugs, if you need a new feature, if you need help or if you want to discuss functionalities or anything else with us, please use the appropriate response mechanism: Response.

We depend on the feedback from the community to improve the framework.

I hope you enjoy this new release (and remember we are not far away from release 1.0 ;).