ActionScript 3 and the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern

There are a number of print and online resources for Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. A book has been written on the topic of ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns with an accompanying article on the Adobe Developer Connection site. Two chapters are available as free downloads from the Adobe article:

• Chapter 2: Factory method pattern (PDF)
• Chapter 12: Model-View-Controller pattern (PDF)

The O’Reilly site offers code examples from the book for download.

Also of interest are a number of MVC frameworks available for implementing ActionScript applications:

• Cairngorm microarchitecture for Flex and AIR
• flashMVC
• JumpShip Framework for ActionScript, Flex, and Flash
• Mate
• Prana Framework
• PureMVC ActionScript 3 Implementation
• Soma (AS3 MVC ActionScript Framework)
• Swiz
  

Colin Moock has written a chapter explaining the MVC concept in his book, Essential ActionScript 2.0, and offers a free download of the chapter.

• Chapter 18, Essential ActionScript 2.0 (PDF)

InsideRIA has a series that compares the differences between the most popular frameworks:

• FrameworkQuest 2008: Introduction
• FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 2: Get Control with Cairngorm
• FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
• FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
• FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
• FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 6: The Exciting Conclusion

Other articles written on the subject:

• Minimalist MVC example using the PureMVC Framework