Well I went all the way though the flex breeze presentation twice. And I have to say I'm at a total loss to understand what Royale is.
The presentation isn't much use - there are about 50 screens, and on all but a few of them there were so many buzzwords, created acronyms and jargon that its difficult to understand what the point of the screen is. About half of the presentation is sheer 'motherhood' statements. Telling us how good it is for users to be able to configure orders for complicated products with lots of options. Nothing new there. I don't think the presentation knows whether it's selling RIAs in concept or some new tool. Out of the 50-odd screens, there is only about 2 that describe anything that I could see might be new. The rest are all putting some kind of ham-fisted case for developing RIAs. What I think we're being asked to do is to pay money for Flex to handle the presentation layer, when we already have such a thing now - in either HTML, ColdFusion, Mach-II, CSS, or Flash and Flash Comms. After seeing the presentation twice now, I cant see what's there that isn't already available. But I guess I've missed the whole point. Which doesn't say a lot for the people putting the presentation together does it. If you've got something new and revolutionary to tell the world about, shouldn't it be obvious after the presentation WHAT exactly IS revolutionary? OR maybe Flex is only for very advanced programmers, and simple small-businessmen like me aren't supposed to be allowed to understand it. If I've totally missed the point (and I readily admit it wouldn't be the first time!) perhaps someone might explain it to me, in words someone who hasn't got a PhD in IT can understand. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Muller Sent: Monday, 17 November 2003 7:36 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Macromedia FLEX aka Royale Gareth Like any RIA application ColdFusion would provide the business layer and Flex will provide the presentation layer. So if you're developing with CFMX your CFCs would work now with HTML/DHTML/Flash via Remoting and, once available, Flash via Flex. Andrew Gareth Edwards wrote: > Flex/Royale whitepaper and presentations at the Macromedia website. I want > to know what people think of this new system. I'm not sure I fully > understand it, is it going to be easy for coldfusion developers to > utilise? > > http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/ > > Cheers > > Gareth. > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
