Something that troubles me about the Cairngorm architecture is the apparent lack of any proper domain model. Although it is argued that the domain model actually exists on the server and that the Flex client is essentially a view, I have always found it necessary to construct some kind of object graph of the domain on the client as well.
I have two concerns regarding this. First, I have never seen examples or discussion of Cairngorm that deals with this issue. In most cases the 'model' isn't much more than a collection of dumb value objects without complex relationships. Second, and more importantly, pretty much all the logic of Cairngorm apps seems to reside in the Command and Delegate classes with not much to speak about in the actual model. It seems to be the Commands that end up manipulating the application data directly, and I'm a little uncomfortable with this. I think Cairngorm’s a good method for managing code and iterative development, but I'm not sure about how well it does encapsulation and MVC. Anyone care to discuss? Cheers, Lach -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
