The PureMVC Framework Code at the Speed of Thought

Hi, I'm organising an opensource project to develop an integrated planning-modelling-documenting-coding tool which will run on AIR.

The project is called Identity Modeller and the objective is to deliver a friendly UML tool which also allows you to do CRC planning (on the reverse of your 'virtual index card' for each class) and to add comments to projects and classes, with automatic stubcode generation with asDoc compatible comments, and reverse engineering from code files. The project will be 100% AS3, not flash or flex specific. The initial target language is AS3 but as the parser will be a module and the language definition will be held in external XML, there is potential to support other languages as well.

A project participant has suggested PureMVC as an alternative to cairngorm and we're definitely going to use it. I'd like all modules to be PureMVC structured as well, and we may later have a project-per-window view, similar to that of omnigraffle or coda, which also cries out for the MultiCore version.

The building of this tool will probably generate a number of useful extensions to PureMVC - some along the lines of undo / redo / history, others to do with remembering application state for each loaded module ... and more that we haven't specified yet!

In the spirit of open source we'd like those features to be as generic as possible - so I'd hoped to post information about the project here to get feedback on those aspects as we develop?

I'm particularly interested in how the MultiCore stuff works within the AIR sandbox. Has anyone done any MultiCore work within AIR yet - or will we be the first?