Comments on: Do you cache?

By: Vivek Lakhanpal

Vivek Lakhanpal — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:54:34 +0000

Hi Rich, I tried to use it in one of project we are building here in our company it’s a bit big project(more then 1mb in total) so framework caching was one thing we were looking for to help us out a bit. But it didn’t worked well for me. Actually our application is module based applications and it has external stylesheet which loads at runtime dynamically. So whenever i try to implement framework caching it starts behaving erratically. i.e. either some of modules wont load properly or sometimes stylesheet wont load properly as most of styles wont get implemented. Not sure what’s the reason is it module? or external stylesheet as there is no error which it reports during compilation or loading. I couldn’t find of much help in this regard anywhere.
Thanks,
Vivek.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:58:07 +0000

Hi Rich, I use framework caching and could reduce the app size from about 500k to 120k. I tested it on several environments and experienced an error on the first load. After reloading the app it worked without any problems. Unfortunately I couldn’t reproduce the error but it was something like ‘error loading RSL’. Apart from that I think that framework caching is a very important feature.

By: todd

todd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:07:55 +0000

Hi Rich, Yes, we TRY to cache the framework. The only problem we have is that we’re using patched versions of the Flex framework (we have a few WebService bugs only solved in patched versions), so our users are stuck using our own version of the framework since Adobe only released Framework rsl’s (swz files) for major releases.

By: Lee McColl Sylvester

Lee McColl Sylvester — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:40:54 +0000

I actually avoid using as much of the Flex framework as possible. I find theres a lot I can do to limit the use of the Framework while still getting the most out of Flex. Only recently, I removed the majority of the primary swc’s from a project and reduced it from 350k to only 81k. Of course, it’s not always possible. It simply depends on the project.