Ah, sorry, missed seeing that earlier. My personal goal is that, someday, a newbie's initial experience when coming to Apache Flex to learn about Flex is a showcase for Flex. That our current landing page is fully replicated by FlexJS, and our installer is an example of an AIR app.
So, I would not want to go down the Java UI path. But if it turns out it is impossible/impractical to accomplish something in AIR, we can certainly consider native process or native extensions to run some java code. That would also be an example of how to write an AIR app. -Alex On 12/15/13 4:50 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com> wrote: >Any reaction to the Java-based installer proposition below (Point B) ? > >Maurice > >-----Message d'origine----- >De : Maurice Amsellem [mailto:maurice.amsel...@systar.com] >Envoyé : jeudi 12 décembre 2013 09:17 >À : dev@flex.apache.org >Objet : RE: Installer Revisited > >(Point A) > >>I thought Air followed redirects. There must be code in the installer >>that does the right thing. Feel free to find it and add it if it needs >>it. > >I don't know either if AIR follows redirects or not, but the way it does >was not enough for downloading from sourceforge and we had to implement a >specific solution. >My concern is that it's really specific, and difficult to make generic. > >Another point is that current Installer has conditional logic ( eg. if >already downloaded, don't download again) that will need to be >implemented in ant_on_air. >It's also missing <parallel> functionality, that would speed up downloads. >And I am sure that we will discover other things... >As you say, it's brand new stuff. > >------ >(Point B) >So may I open the discussion on an alternative approach: > >After all, do we absolutely need that the installer be and AIR app? >The ant "core" lib is not that big (a few MB) so maybe we could build the >installer as a JAVA GUI app instead of an AIR app, that embeds the ANT >lib. > >I am not saying this will be easy, but at least it will be guaranteed to >have the same behavior, and opens up a full range of possibilities. > >Thoughts ? > >Maurice > >
