For about the past month, Doug McCune, Ted Patrick, Mike Chambers and I have been collaborating on an open source community-driven Flex 2 component library. Today, we're pleased to announce the opening of FlexLib!
Interestingly enough, just the other day Mrinal Wadhwa announced FlexBox, a directory of Flex 2 components. FlexLib looks to take this a step further.
FlexLib is a Google Code project that aims at being a concentrated effort by the Flex 2 community for creating high quality user interface components. FlexLib provides a standard component namespace, package structure, code and naming conventions, and common reusable base classes to unify the various efforts people have put forth on their own.
Most of the content currently in FlexLib reflects Doug's work. I've added a few things here and there, but so far the bulk of the offerings have been gathered from his archives. Going forward, new components that I release on my weblog will be released as part of the FlexLib library. I hope that other component authors follow suit and join in our efforts.
Where to go from here:
- FlexLib home page - http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/
- FlexLib discussion group - http://groups.google.com/group/flexlib
- Current Component List
- ASDoc Documentation
- How To Contribute
2 Comments
Wow!!.. this is interesting .. we were all trying to address the same problem at the same time I guess ... great work guys, I really like your idea of having one library for all components.
FlexBox, I feel still has a place, at least till the time everyone moves all their existing code to FlexLib and maybe even after that ... so I am going to continue improving and updating FlexBox till that time.
I would love to hear from you,Doug,Ted,Mike and everyone else on how we could work together to make both FlexBox and FlexLib benifit the community.
Cheers
Posted by: Mrinal Wadhwa | February 28, 2007 10:30 AM
Looks like your repository URL needs to be adjusted to http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/flexlib
Posted by: Robert Smith | February 28, 2007 11:27 AM