Object Pooling Manager API is an open source API that allows you to create a collection of objects and use them at any given time. These usable objects can be anything from a UI component to an XML list. The Object Pooling manager ensures the management of the collections of objects and allows the client to keep using them without costing any additional resources.

Flex is a single thread programming language which means that the program cannot split itself into more than one simultaneously tasks and it causes flex to slow down, especially when the cost of initializing a class is high. Object pooling can be used to manage object caching and boost performance.

A real life example is a book case. You have a case full of books and you decide to read one of the books. While you use the book you may stained a page by a coffee and changed the look of the book. After you are done using the book you return the book to the book case for later usage.

Object pooling works the same way, the object pooling class is singleton to insure you are not pulling more than one reusable object at a time. At any given time you pick a reusable object, the object is being removed from the collection so the client can change it and place it back for future usage.

The Flex API I developed is based on creating a usable collection of objects, the objects can be any component such as Flex Sprite or Canvas, array, class or anything you want it to be.

The object pooling can boost performance; especially in cases where the resources used to initializing a class instance are high, the number of times the class will be usage is often, and the number of instantiations in use at any single time is low.

All source code contained in this API has been published under the MIT licence and is protected as stated therein.

To see an example and download source code:
http://elromdesign.com/blog/Flex/API/ObjectPoolManager/

To view the ASDOC of all the API:
http://elromdesign.com/blog/Flex/API/asdoc/