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Chapter 8. Frameworks

In the previous chapter, I mentioned the use of application frameworks as being a best practice when developing applications with larger teams. Such a framework can be a well-known one developed by other people or companies, but it can also be a custom framework that has been developed by your company. In this chapter, I'm going to focus on the official ones and more particularly on the ones that are most commonly used when developing Flex applications.

Let me start by briefly explaining what an application framework is and what it can do for you. A framework is actually a group of design patterns that work together to structure your project code. Frameworks do not only apply to Flex code; they can also apply to plain ActionScript, ...