Alex, We're getting OT here, but I wanted to say this...
My experience so far in developing Flex is that, despite the cost, the savings in development time are very, very significant. I've built Flash RIAs from scratch, and spent hundreds of hours having to develop solutions for various aspects that are now included in Flex and are done in a very thorough way. They may not have thought of everything, but they have thought of an awful lot. I can't think of any other approach which would deliver application-focused RIAs faster. Trying to deliver anything approaching this type of user experience in HTML would be daunting and EXPENSIVE, especially when you consider the differences in object models between browsers. Given all this, I don't see Flex as that out of line, expense-wise. When I think of the amount of money that companies spend on various solutions, app servers(BEA, Websphere), content management solutions (Vignette, Broadvsion), I just don't see Flex as anything but a total win. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Sherwood Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Mach-ii vs. Struts At 02:34 PM 6/11/2004, you wrote: >Flex is very interesting because it actually implements MVC directly >and uses a declarative style to bind controls to data, supported by a >clean event-based architecture. Yes, the back end code (e.g., Java, CF) >still needs to be well-structured and many design patterns can help >there but there are few (if any?) frameworks that are intended to apply >to back end code that has no UI... Flex also implements a price tag that is far above what most shops can (or are willing) to afford. Flex fits PERFECTLY with a CFMX CFC/Webserviced based application, yet most of the CF developers building these applications can't get their hands on it! Stick to HTML and Mach-II. -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
