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Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm microarchitecture – Part 6: Rapid and consistent development with Cairngorm and Flex

To begin the final article of this series, take a moment to stand on the summit of Cairngorm and look down at how far you have climbed.

With a deeper understanding of Cairngorm, you now have the knowledge, tools, and expertise to be able to scale any complex rich Internet application, applying the lessons you have learned to tackle any application development project confidently, no matter how steep the problem may first appear.

By applying these lessons, you can consistently, effectively, and rapidly accomplish the design, development, and delivery of rich Internet applications knowing that the methods you use have been proven effective on numerous challenges as complex and critical as your own.

Let's consolidate this understanding with a quick review of the different patterns in Cairngorm and how they work together. In this article, we will review the essential infrastructure that you must have in place to efficiently deliver feature after feature into your application.

In addition, we'll show you how to complete a new development task in the Cairngorm Store. You can use the exercise to confirm that you are now ready to develop your own applications with Cairngorm by correctly applying the same best practices that so many other Flex developers use with success.

• Part 1: Introducing Cairngorm
• Part 2: Keeping state on the client
• Part 3: Architecting the view
• Part 4: Feature-driven development
• Part 5: Server-side integration
• Part 6: Rapid and consistent development with Cairngorm and Flex

Requirements

In order to make the most of this series, you need the following software and files:

Flex Builder 3

• Try
• Buy

Cairngorm version 2.2

• Download Cairngorm version 2.2

Cairngorm Store

Throughout the series you will find references to code taken from an e-commerce application named Cairngorm Store. You may use this sample application to gain a better understanding of Cairngorm, but please consider it only as a guide. Adobe is not responsible for maintaining the Cairngorm Store application.

• Download Cairngorm Store (J2EE Container version)
• Download Cairngorm Store (non J2EE Container version)

Prerequisites

Read the previous articles in the series, starting with Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture – Part 1: Introducing Cairngorm before reading Part 6.

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