Anyone remember Saffron?  I was never certain if this project was ever going to come to fruition, so lately I was thinking excessively about making my own.  I started searching for inspiration in other UML tools so I could design a better user interface.  Low and behold, I stumble across UML4AS, a brand spanking new project that does just what I was planning of doing.

It integrates completely with Eclipse (and Flash Builder) and has this neat feature called CodeSync that makes sure your model and code is always persisted between each other.  In other words, everything works together in an integrated workflow to save you time.

I’ll have to dig deeper, try this out on projects and do a complete review.  In the meantime, please support this initiative by registering and posting on the forum.

When Flex 4 beta was released, I glanced over it quickly and sighed at several facts about it. I didn’t use it in my work since using beta software in enterprise applications would essentially signing my death warrant. I noticed a lot of other blogs mention the pros and cons about it. My biggest gripe about it was the new class prefix (FxApplication, etc). I’m happy to say that adobe listened to the community and instead just added a new namespace (s:Application).

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