On AIR with Flex

Here is a small piece of code I wrote to demonstrate Interacting with a Command, through an Event while using a Cairngorm Framework.

The application connects to a WSDL webservice via Flash Builder 4 Data/Services to validate an Email address against the Email Server. Doesn’t work well with domains with a ‘Catch-All’ email address though !
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Cairngorm is a lightweight micro-architecture framework for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR, defining best-practices for a RIA. Read More

When a Cairngorm command requires parameters to call the required delegate, a common (bad) practice is to fetch parameters from View Components / Calculate or Query from inside the Cairngorm Command, and end up writing complicated / un-understandable code inside Command files, when a Cairngorm event is being dispatched from > 1 AS files.

But isn’t all this going against the very purpose of using the Cairngorm architecture?
Why not have parameters passed to a Cairngorm Event every time its dispatched, and stay away from mixing C with M and V in a MVC Framework?

This post explains how you pass parameters to a Cairngorm command at runtime, via a Cairngorm Event.
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