Anden Solutions LLC is working with The MAD Samurai LLC creating a state-of-the-art web based system for t-shirt printing companies. This software consists of an Adobe AIR application that will be used by the printing company and an Adobe Flex web application used by the clients. This software will allow clients to upload artwork and then visualize it online on 3D models of the t-shirts. The software is being developed using several technologies such as Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, WebORB for Java, Sandy3D, and MySQL database. Anden Solutions also adopted the Mate framework for this development.

The MAD Samurai LLC was established 2006 with a unique focus on local small businesses who can’t afford a full-time, in-house marketing department but need to compete on the level of larger corporations. They provide, in essence, a design, marketing and development “department” that is as personal and cuztomized as your own in-house department, but can be utilized and paid for on an as-needed basis for a fraction of the cost. Services cover everything from graphic design to website development and hosting management.

Anden Solutions is dedicated to delivering custom-made, high quality, and affordable system solutions. They specialize in designing simulations, educational video games, and Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex. The company’s headquarters are located in Florence, KY, with an additional development center in Córdoba, Argentina.

Depending on the client needs and the project specifications, Anden Solutions either uses Cairngorm or Mate frameworks for the development of rich Internet applications (RIA) using Adobe Flex.

Cairngorm

The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is defined on the Adobe Labs site as “a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.”

Cairngorm consist of a library (swc file) and a set of patterns that organize the development work. This collection of design patterns (microarchitecture) defines how we should handle the following design challenges:

• Handling user gestures on the client
• Encapsulating business logic and server interactions
• Managing state on the client and representing this state to the user interface.

Anden Solutions reaps the benefits of the Cairngorm architecture especially when developing complex RIA applications with multiple use-cases and views, that require a team of developers. Cairngorm has been very helpful for making those applications easily extensible and manageable.

For more information about Cairngorm visit http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm

Mate

Mate framework is defined as “a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework that focuses on giving developers maximum flexibility.”  It has been developed by asfusion and it’s picking up a lot of steam in the Flex development community. Mate is pronounced like the Argentine tea (mah -teh) that gives AndenSolutions’ developers their daily doses of caffeine (actually, mateine).

In a few words, Mate is an MXML-based Flex framework that encourages the use of the MVC architectural pattern.  It consist of a swc file available for download from the asfusion web site.  Like Cairngorm, this framework also addresses event handling, data binding, and asynchronous processing. However, Mate utilizes the built-in event-driven nature of Flex applications instead of building a framework-specific event architecture. This allows for a very lightweight and flexible architecture.

The framework is built around an Event Map. The Event Map is a MXML file(s) that consists of a collection of handlers to respond to incoming events and perform any number of appropriate actions.

Mate also uses the Event Map to support dependency injection. Instead of databinding elements from the Model to the appropriate View component, child-by-child, you let Injectors do the work for you. An Injector will insert the appropriate property into all instances of a particular component, without having to pass it through the component’s parental hierarchy (extract from insideria.com).

For more information about Mate visit http://mate.asfusion.com/