Version 0.9 has been released. Thanks to Cliff Meyers and Nick Matelli for their contributions!
What's changed:
Posted on December 15, 2010
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If you are building a Mate project with Maven, you can add the dependency as follows:
In the repositories section:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>mate-repository</id>
<url>http://mate-framework.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/maven</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
In the dependencies section:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.asfusion.mate</groupId>
<artifactId>mate-framework</artifactId>
<version>0.8.9</version>
<type>swc</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
As new versions of Mate are released, the maven folder will be updated to contain them, so you will just need to change the version on the dependency node.
Posted on May 10, 2010
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Sid Maestre will be giving a 1/2 day workshop on Sunday that will cover the basics of the Mate Framework. We'll be there helping out in anything he needs and reviewing the materials in adance. Don't miss it!
Posted on December 02, 2009
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Brian Rinaldi wrote a great introductory article. He created an example to show how you can build an application with Mate. The code is available for download and you can read the whole article here.
Posted on June 14, 2009
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One of the requested features was to implement a way to do bindings without creating a strong reference. The PropertyInjector tag establishes a binding between the source and the target. Internally, it uses the BindingUtils to create the binding. The problem with this approach is that BindingUtils always creates a strong reference - at least in Flex 3 (Flex 4 has some improvements for that).
To fix that, we added a new attribute called "softBinding" to the PropertyInjector tag that will create a binding using weak references. This feature is very handy if you are using modules because your module will be garbage collected when you unload it.
The ability to use an ISmartObject as the value for a service method call. In other words, now you can use a value coming from an event or any ISmartObject to define the method that a RemoteObjectInvoker or WebserviceInvoker will use. Also, I added a patch to MessangeHandlers that avoids calling the subscribe method in the consumer twice (thanks to Dirk Stevens for the patch).
Ok that is all for 08.8. I didn't do a post about what was new for 08.7, so here it is . The major feature was Injection by interfaces, what that means is that you can add an interface as a target of the Injector tag and if that matches the current object, the object will get injected. Also, if you add a super class as a target and the current object extends that class, the injection will also run. But there is something that you should be aware of: to make it work, you need to set "includeDerivatives" to true. By default, this attribute is false because injecting by super classes and injecting by interfaces is more expensive than the normal injection. So if you don't need it, I would suggest that you don't change that attribute.
The other main thing in 08.7 is the addition of the new tag called CacheSetter. I will not cover all the details of that. There is a thread in the forums that you can read
Posted on June 07, 2009
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