End of Life for Anvil Flex
I have decided to stop development on anvil flex. It had a good 2 year run, but it’s sorely out of date. Mostly it has been replaced by other frameworks. Flex has made dramatic changes in the past several years and made a lot of anvil out of date. The Spring BlazeDS project provides much better back-end support and integration. On the Flex side the biggest downside is most of the data is passed using custom events. Today I would rewrite this using something like Swiz.
It has been really interesting developing anvil flex and I have learned a lot. Probably the biggest lesson is how hard it is to keep an open source project up to date. It gives you a much deeper appreciation for major open source projects and the amount of commitment it takes.
Some parts of anvil flex are still useful. It allows dynamically loading and managing modules. It also has a unique portal framework. The code will remain available on sourceforge and provides some good sample projects.
