Alain Hufkens {Rich Interactive Applications Developer}

Useful actionscript libraries part 2

A while ago I wrote a blog post about a list of useful actionscript libraries on Google Code. So this is a follow up post, and an addition to the previous list. Not all projects are hosted on Google Code, so hence the slightly different title.

Here's the list:

• AlivePdf is a client side AS3 PDF generation library for Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR. It can also be used to display PDF files.
• HydraMVC is the result of a total rewrite of the PureMVC API exclusively for Flex, allowing Flex developers to take advantage of the PureMVC paradigm while leveraging native Flex features. Currently we mostly use the PureMVC framework, but this could be interesting for big Flex applications.
• FlexMonkey is a testing framework for Flex apps that provides for the capture, replay and verification of Flex UI functionality. FlexMonkey can record and playback Flex UI interactions, and generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that can easily be included within a continuous integration process.
• Open Flash Chart is a library that contains a number of frequently used charts like line, bar, pie, scatter charts and some more.
• Merapi is a Java™ application, intended to run on a user's (client) computer. Merapi connects other Java™ applications on the user's computer to Adobe AIR™ applications that the user has installed. In May, Merapi has officially become Open Source!
• Efflex is a library with a list of effect that can be used in Flex applications. Here's a list of available effects: Slide, CoverFlowPapervision3D, FlipPapervision3D, GridZoom, Grid, List, Squash, FadeZoom, Fade,TileFade, MovieClipEffect,...
• Spring Actionscript aims to bring Inversion of Control to ActionScript for use in Flex, AIR and even Flash applications. It contains an IoC container, based on that of Spring, a reflection API, extensions for the Cairngorm and PureMVC frameworks and several interesting utilities.
• The last one is actually not an actionscript library, but still very interesting if you are into application development using Flex. flex-mojos is a collection of maven plugins to allow maven to compile, optimize, test and ... Flex SWF, Flex SWC, Air SWF and Air SWC.We are currently using it for Flex projects that rely heavy on a Java back-end.

Some of the libraries I have used or played with already, and others I still need to checkout. Hope you find something useful here.