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I've always loved to play around with MVC frameworks. Since AS3 came out i used quite a bunch of them: LowRA, PureMVC, Soma, Mate, SpringAS, Parsley, Swiz and finally Robotlegs. They all have pros and cons and i could spend hours taking about why i changed from one to the other. Some offer more (and think it's good), some offer less (and think it's better)... I guess the only sure thing, is that they all share a common base: MVC.

Anyway, i love Robotlegs simplicity and this is why i use it at the moment.

This is the first post of a serie called "Playing with... ". I play with a lot of libraries, frameworks, etc.. and this will hopefully be a way of forcing me to write something about those experiments.

After the introduction on the "why" of Drupal and Flash (see this post if you missed it), let's start to build something a bit more concrete.

In this example we will create a basic example of Flash and Drupal communication. We will:

• install Drupal and the needed modules
• create some content

i've been playing (read "working") for a while with Drupal and Flash, time to settle down and write a little feedback about it. This post is to be considered as a theoretical introduction and i'll cover some technical stuff in the next posts. [Update] see part 1 here [/Update]

Why Flash

[Update] i updated this example to stay in line with the flex example, using a [PostConstruct] metadata, and not dispatch a "onApplicationReady" event [/Update]

This is another basic example of Parsley 2.0.
This time without using the Flex framework (ie: pure AS project), which makes the whole thing a bit more complicated.
(here is the flex version )

[Update] After some comment by Jens (Parsley dev) i updated the workflow. See striked comment below [/Update]

This is a _very_ basic example of the new Parsley framework version (2.0).
Although useless and ugly :), it uses a few of Parsley new features such as injection via metadata and the messaging capabilities (read event system).
If you haven't given it a try... you should!