For example, if you wanted to deploy using Central, Flash Standalone Player, Flash Projector (isn't that Flash standalone player??) then you wouldn't use Flex.
That's true today but Kevin Lynch commented in an interview recently that he sees Flex being used to develop Central applications in the future if Macromedia evolve Flex to compile MXML to SWF directly...
Chris Velevitch wrote:If you choose Flash for the client, it doesn't mean you've chosen FLEX on the server.
I think I'm part of the target audience for Flex - I'm a text-based programmer, used to compilers and similar technologies (think C, C++, Java etc) and if I want to produce a Flash user interface my only choice until very recently was to struggle with the timeline-based metaphor of the Flash authoring environment. The MX 2004 Pro forms & screens idiom has helped but it's still not very natural for someone like me to build Flash UIs. Flex makes it much more natural: a text-based programming language (XML / ECMAScript) and a compiler. That means - for me - choosing Flash for the client pretty much does mean choosing Flex on the server...
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
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