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Mate Injectors - brief explanation

In my continued work with Flex and Mate I've come to understand the model Injectors system pretty well. Initially I struggled trying to understand a few things.
Click "read more" for my simplistic explanation of IOC in Mate.

Mate tutorial - abstracting the business logic/data communications and presentation

As promised, here's an example of the business/presentation abstraction in Mate.

Mate - abstracting the business logic/data communications and presentation

When I first wrote about Mate vs Cairngorm, the main concern I stated with both was that in any MVC architecture there's little consideration given to splitting out the data/business code from the presentation code.
Here is my solution.

Mate gotcha - events not being picked up by EventMap

I've been using Mate heavily over the last few weeks and am really enjoying implementing the architecture. However there are a few gotchas that caught me out and I'll write about them here.

Flex microarchitectures - Cairngorm vs Mate

I've recently been comparing various Flex architectures for managing business logic and server communications. The two main systems I've been looking into are Cairngorm and Mate.

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