Thursday, March 6, 2008

JumpShip Has Buzz




I've been monitoring traffic for a little while now but ever since I announced the release of JumpShip 3.0, interests seems to have spiked. So thanks to all who are reading, we are now 63 countries strong!

Jamie

Sunday, March 2, 2008

JumpShip 3.0 is Here!!

JumpShip 3.0 has been released.

www.osflash.org/projects/jumpship

Release Notes:

The main goal of this version of JumpShip has been to lower the barrier to entry both in the learning curve, and in the time it takes to get an application up and running.

Former versions of the JumpShip Framework required you to extend base classes to get even the simplest application working. In JumpShip 3.0, the base classes are still there but they are fully implemented. JumpShip 3.0 lets you extend the framework one piece at a time, leaving the rest to perform in a minimal way. In this way you can get an application up and running almost instantly. Using an agile programming style, you can add and change functionality as you need it.

In order to lower the learning curve, JumpShip 3.0 has come more in line with the way other popular MVC frameworks work. Although JumpShip still takes the unique point of view that it is easier to work with a framework that sets reasonable conventions rather than try to be everything to all people, JumpShip 3.0 brings these conventions more in line with other frameworks like Cairngorm, PureMVC and ARP. The goal was to make the concepts familiar to those who have used other frameworks while still providing all of the great tools that JumpShip is known for.

JumpShip 3.0 has also made significant improvements to the Ruby on Rails Gateway. The new JSRailsGateway takes advantage of the RESTful scaffolding that is standard in the latest version of Rails. The Gateway talks directly to you Rails models, eliminating the need for a Gateway on the Rails side to capture, translate, and send data from Flash to Rails.

So to put it simply, JumpShip 3.0 can preform standard Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on a standard Ruby on Rails back end with no extra sever-side code. The JumpShip Rails Gateway works with the JumpShip Data Model (JSDataModel) so everything sent and received through the Gateway is understood by the rest of your JumpShip application.

Take a look in the examples folder in the rails package and see how to put together a simple database driven address book in minutes.

Enjoy!

Jamie