In the latest Flex 4 SDK builds, you can write Flex compiler extensions which allow custom Java code to be inserted into the compiler. This is thanks to SDK-18718 and the work of Andrew Westberg.
I'm very interested to see the extensions that come out of this. Here's some possibilities:
- custom metadata processing that's similar to Java's annotation processing, which someone is already working on
- a better-integrated version of flexcover
- different databinding solutions
- conversion of more media types for embedding
- SWF size reduction with new compiler optimizations
Comments (2)
I wanted to give credit where credit is due. This compiler extension feature couldn't have happened without the development work of the Flex Community and Marvin Froeder (of flex-mojos fame) in particular, and Paul Reilly from Adobe.
http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos
Most of the code development came from those two people . I mainly provided guidance and direction for the project and support/code review.
Posted by Andrew Westberg | August 3, 2009 8:47 AM
Posted on August 3, 2009 08:47
Hey Andrew, thanks for the comment. I didn't realize that Marvin and others did some of the development, so thanks to all of you. And Paul... well Paul is involved with everything in the compiler so I sometimes forget to mention him. :)
Posted by Brian Deitte | August 3, 2009 9:21 AM
Posted on August 3, 2009 09:21