Poll: What Flex/AS3 framework(s) are you currently using?

Hi folks,

We’re looking to prioritize our work on sample applications for Gravity. We’d like to include examples that highlight a layered architecture with some of the more popular frameworks out there in the community. Please pick your top two below!

There’s a good chance additional sub-projects will pop-up under the Gravity umbrella in the future leading towards a top to bottom solution for Flex development. With that said though we feel it’s best to keep the bits open and interchangeable so folks can take what they need. Especially the OSGi-inspired runtime. We’ve followed the spec as close as we could given the constraints of AS3 and the Flash player.

p.s. We’re currently in the “queue” for our Adobe Labs release of Gravity. Adobe is a big company and there are i’s to dot and t’s to cross. Thanks for your patience!

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~ by Stacy Young on October 14, 2009.

Posted in Flash, Flex, Gravity, Survey

21 Responses to “Poll: What Flex/AS3 framework(s) are you currently using?”

  1. RobotLegs +1 http://wiki.github.com/robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/overview

    John said this on October 14, 2009 at 9:49 pm

  2. Thanks John. Added it to the list. (you’ll have to clear cache to see it)

    Stacy Young said this on October 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  3. Spring ActionScript: wwww.springactionscript.org

    Christophe Herreman said this on October 14, 2009 at 11:08 pm

  4. Tacked it on, thx!

    Stacy Young said this on October 14, 2009 at 11:22 pm

  5. VEGAS and Maashaack : http://code.google.com/p/vegas/

    ekameleon said this on October 15, 2009 at 2:02 am

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  8. lowRa
    http://code.google.com/p/lowra/

    or Palmer
    http://code.google.com/p/palmer/

    Yeah I know it sounds like a joke but they are AS3 frameworks, and good ones :)
    Palmer is actually pretty new. It’s the successor of lowRa.
    And lowRa was the successor of pixlib, an as2 framework…

    zeflasher said this on October 15, 2009 at 3:48 pm

  9. I’ll post all the entries under “other” once the poll is closed. Some interesting stuff!

    Stacy Young said this on October 15, 2009 at 5:42 pm

  10. Yup I’ll be keen to see what are the different frameworks listed there… :)

    zeflasher said this on October 15, 2009 at 5:54 pm

  11. I wonder how many developers have voted so far.

    Terry said this on October 15, 2009 at 7:43 pm

  12. 450+ !

    Stacy Young said this on October 15, 2009 at 9:02 pm

  13. Wow! All these frameworks! It’s beginning to feel like Java all over again… A framework per project. ;)

    James Ward said this on October 15, 2009 at 11:44 pm

  14. I use VEGAS because it’s almost the only one in the list that I can really call a framework.
    Lot’s of tool and stuff !

    Idden said this on October 16, 2009 at 3:34 am

  15. Yep, i’m totally agree with you idden ;)

    NairuS said this on October 16, 2009 at 7:07 am

  16. I’m NOT believing those numbers! (Parsley: 31%, Cairngorm: 14%, PureMVC: 15%; as of this posting)
    Parsley’s got more than twice the votes of either Caringorm or PureMVC? I don’t think so!
    It sure looks like someone’s been astro-turfing for Parsley.
    While I’m sure it’s a great framework and all; how about letting it stand on its own (objective) merits . . .

    Banned in Boston said this on October 16, 2009 at 11:36 am

  17. Yeah it seems someone’s been having some fun over the past 12hrs. I’ve closed the poll, thanks all!

    Stacy Young said this on October 16, 2009 at 12:03 pm

  18. Hi,
    I’m not sure about the results but I can tell that I know a lot of Flex people using Parsley, at least here in Europe, and that’s definitely the best framework within given list. Most of all flex Enterprise projects I’m aware of here in UK and Europe are using Parsley in some degree.

    Oleg said this on October 16, 2009 at 5:35 pm

  19. I dont think there has been “cheating” on voting for parsley.
    Parsley is really a great framework and the flex community is more and more eager to use it.
    I was just about to vote for it but the poll is closed unfortunatly…

    Sephir said this on October 17, 2009 at 8:23 pm

  20. I would guess: Most developers only know one or two of the frameworks in any depth. And if a framework they don’t know much about gets a high vote one may think: “Why does this framework win? I knew nothing about it, it must be a loosing framework.”

    Arne said this on October 19, 2009 at 12:33 am

  21. I’m surprised that Parsley didn’t get more votes! Cairngorm is old and well used and most experienced flex devs will already know it.
    PureMVC on the other hand totally sucks if you are going to use flex and not just pure actionscript.
    Also Parsley was at the top of the list so would be likely to get random votes from people that may already use one of the frameworks but want to try/see something else.

    James said this on October 26, 2009 at 11:11 am

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