PureMVC Tutorial - Flex, PureMVC, Jabber and XIFF 3: Introduction

by Dave Keen

I like Actionscript 3, I like Flex, I like Flash and I especially like PureMVC. In fact, I like them so much that its about time I wrote a fully fledged tutorial to help the rest of you like them as much as I do. The code we are going to recreate here started life as a technical test for a job I was interested in. Unfortunately it ended up not being for me, but the code itself lends itself excellently to demonstrating how to use PureMVC as well as creating a decent application along the way. As you have probably guessed from the title we’ll be creating a simple but fully functional Jabber chat client. Its not exactly going to be feature rich, but by the end of this tutorial your application will allow you to login, logout, show your buddy list and have one-to-one chats with your friends. Chatrooms, invites and all the other bits of Jabber goodness are left as an exercise for the reader

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