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July 06, 2005
[Flash Platform] ARP Advisory Committee Member
Just a quick note to announce that I’ve been appointed a seat on the ARP Advisory Committee!
For those who don’t know, ARP is an Open Source Pattern-Based Rich Internet Application (RIA) Framework for the Flash Platform and currently supports both Flash and Flex RIA Development in ActionScript 2.
To learn more about ARP check out: http://osflash.org/arp
For a list of current ARP committee Members check out: http://www.openarp.org/index.php?page=ARP+Advisory+Committee
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at July 6, 2005 06:04 AM
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congrats erik. I'm currently scoping a internal company project and i'd like to base it on a preexisting framework to help with it's scalability. I've been reading through the ARP documentation as well as AS2Lib docs. Can you give me any hilights on the how they compare and contrast. I've not had a lot of luck when working in the forms view in the flash ide. Code seems to be on all the slides and it seems slow at runtime.Meanwhile AS2Lib is really big size wise. Any opinions of yours would be helpful.-e
Posted by: ethan at July 6, 2005 03:13 PM
Hey Ethan,
The one thing to keep in mind is that ARP is a lightweight development framework where as AS2Lib is pretty extensive and implements features found in other programming languages.
Where ARP has maybe a total of 10 classes AS2Lib has well over 100. So if you're looking for a lightweight flexible solution that is extremely well documented with plenty of code samples and sample applications you could get up and running with ARP in a couple of hours. With ARP simplicity is one of its strengths.
To clarify with ARP you do not have to use forms (it might be a good idea if we made a couple non form based samples). What you can do is use MovieClips instead as your forms / slides. Then inside of your Application view you can attach and remove MovieClips as needed or you could subclass ARPForm in your MovieClip classes and leave the Application view untouched. It’s all really up to you and this is the type of flexibility ARP provides!
If you haven't done so already I highly recommend joining the ARP mailing list: http://ariaware.com/mailman/listinfo/arp_ariaware.com
Best and good luck!
-erik
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