On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, sai pabbathi <saipabbat...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello All, > > I've been thinking about creating my own version of collections and > Generics for a while now. I'm a java guy and I crave to have Collections on > the client side. Having the collections and generics would not hurt, it > would actually reduce the coding errors, and development time as most of > the time we will be working around the data in any type of application. > Some times I have to run the application to know the type of data that is > in the ArrayCollection, even though flex provides 'Vector' as way to > introduce generics into flex, it is not as powerful as the ArrayCollection, > and not many are aware of its existence. > > Also having a good set of collections like Map, Set, List, Queues would > help develop more robust client side applications. > > P:S: I'm unaware if adobe has already planned to roll out collections in > the near future. Its just an Idea! > > -- > Sai Pabbathi > ACE 4.0 > SCJP 5.0 > I agree with you about having more robust collections. I just wanted to mention I have created a VectorCollection for working with Vector objects, you can check it out here: https://github.com/s9tpepper/VectorTools If there's enough interest I can look at donating it to the SDK and expanding or adding to it, otherwise, its there in my repo. :) -- Omar Gonzalez s9tpep...@apache.org Apache Flex PPMC Member
