Chris Scott just blogged about the new Swiz Prototype bean which was introduced in Swiz 0.0.5.

Instead of getting a specific (singleton) bean instance there is a factory behind which always returns a new instance of the bean you try to autowire. Damn this is really a great feature which I also needed in my current project. [...]

It is a common scenario that you have to build the Flex client side when the server side is not ready yet. I want to show how you easily can fake/mock service calls with the Swiz framework.

Let’s take the login example. We have got the view with the login form, the controller which catches the LoginEvent [...]

The Flex compiler supports conditional compilation and now I had the first use-case for it.

I am still playing around with the Swiz framework and I wanted to have an easy way to switch between mocked and real data. For that reason I added the two compile constants mock and release in the CONFIG namespace:

To support mock [...]

After the 360Flex took place in San Jose I watched a few of the video recordings which are available through Adobe Media Player. Ted Patrick was also so nice to put them on his blog.

I am always interested in new Flex frameworks and Swiz got my attention. I watched the video and started to play around [...]