I have played with it extensively. I like AS3 and Flex in general, but you are right ColdFusion is easier as quicker.
Part of the problem is however that you need to become more familiar with it, but it is a big learning curve. With that said ColdFusion probably was at the start also. Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Am I the only one who thinks Flex 2 isn't I also feel that Flex is suffering from the bandwagon effect. Too many people think that it's "the business" which causes other people to jump on it. I do think it's cool, and that it has it's place. I'll say though that it sounds like you're doing a few things wrong. If you're already a ColdFusion developer, and have knowledge of writing CFCs then you should be using THOSE to return data to Flex. It's FAR faster than using XML and you don't suffer from the overhead of an XML doc. Also, 400k isn't that bad for an app...you'd probably have something close to that for plain ColdFusion and HTML. andy -----Original Message----- From: Joeri B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Am I the only one who thinks Flex 2 isn't Recently I developed my first realworld Flex 2 application for a client, after months of playing with Flex 2. My conclusion so far: 1. Flex 2 AND developement: is slow, cause of the many posibilities. And somewhat fixed layout. For ex. "client is saying he wants the item to resize and fade out to the right, instead of ... " Making project times extendssssszzzzzzzz 2. Flex 2 AND database: We have created an XML for the data, that's makes the application sluggish as hell! XML data have much overhead ( I believe something like 2/3 ) 3. Flex 2 AND performance: On my machine it works ok, but older machines it's has serious performance issues. 4. Flex 2 AND filesize: 400 KB for a shoplike application, product and filtering! Instead I would rather programmed it in old-style Coldfusion HTML with a little javascript. But i searched google, and found many PRO Flex 2 articles, and exaclty 1 againts..... Am I the only one?!?!?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287859 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
