Suggested Projects

The Flex team receives feature requests all the time, both official and through other means. Clearly we are not able to implement everything as part of the core Flex project, and not everything can be done by the Flex team itself. One of the benefits we hope to achieve by being open source is that the community feels encouraged to build features on their own that can then have an opportunity to be discussed and potentially integrated at a later time.

This page is meant to list a small number of the top projects that we think the community would really benefit from, based on anecdotal evidence as well as observations from feature requests and bug filing and voting trends. Feel free to add your own thoughts (including whether you want to work on one of these projects) in the comments or even better in the General Discussion forum.

Of course you may not be interested in working on a whole new project, but that doesn't mean you can't contribute. We are always looking for help with documentation as well as bug fixes.

The List

  • Maven2 support
  • A dependency injection framework
  • Open Social APIs
  • An OSGi implementation in AS3
  • Extensions for the existing Web Services library
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  1. Jul 03, 2008

    Marvin Froeder says:

    For Maven2 support I suggest flex-mojos: http://blog.flex-mojos.info/ VELO

    For Maven2 support I suggest flex-mojos:
    http://blog.flex-mojos.info/

    VELO

  2. Jul 04, 2008

    Sebastian Zarzycki says:

    Depedency Injection / IoC - Prana by Christophe Herreman http://www.pranaframew...

    Depedency Injection / IoC - Prana by Christophe Herreman http://www.pranaframework.org/

  3. Jul 04, 2008

    Olivier Bugalotto says:

    Dependency Injection / IoC - Framework Indigo by Olivier Bugalotto aka Iteratif ...

    Dependency Injection / IoC - Framework Indigo by Olivier Bugalotto aka Iteratif
    http://code.google.com/p/indigoframework

  4. Jul 04, 2008

    Dan Tripp says:

    Rails/Merb Integration / "Simplified Cairngorm" Framework: Ruboss by Peter Armst...

    Rails/Merb Integration / "Simplified Cairngorm" Framework: Ruboss by Peter Armstrong and Dima Berastau http://ruboss.com/

    Dependency Injection / IoC Framework: Swiz by Chris Scott http://code.google.com/p/swizframework/

  5. Jul 04, 2008

    Claus Wahlers says:

    Only in part related to Flex, but i would still like to continue working on DENG...

    Only in part related to Flex, but i would still like to continue working on DENG for AS3: http://deng.com.br/

  6. Jul 07, 2008

    Matt Chotin says:

    These are all great. Flex-mojos looks like the way to go for Maven, I see some ...

    These are all great. Flex-mojos looks like the way to go for Maven, I see some bug fixes that are requested that maybe folks could assist with by contributing patches. IoC definitely has multiple contenders, I wonder if folks would be interested in combining efforts.

  7. Jul 07, 2008

    Harry Garland says:

    Content Management System (CMS) library that is specifically designed to take ad...

    Content Management System (CMS) library that is specifically designed to take advantage of MXML and Flex CSS. It's gotta be built so the app programmer can pick and choose which aspects of a CMS will go into the app. Also, the CMS will not be standalone. It will only be functional in the context of an application. Basically, the app programmer will be able to tell the app that it wants a CMS-controlled block in a certain place in the mxml. Then, the content will just automatically get put there, and the admin user can edit the content from its location during runtime.

  8. Aug 07, 2008

    Sönke Rohde says:

    ORM framework for BlazeDS with annotations like suggested here: http://coenraets...
  9. Sep 02, 2008

    Michael Herron says:

    Mxml-based Dependency Injection / IoC - Flicc http://flicc.sourceforge.net/

    Mxml-based Dependency Injection / IoC - Flicc
    http://flicc.sourceforge.net/