Thanks a lot for all your help. I have made a lot of progress in a We are not in a hurry to migrate immediately to FlexJS at all. FlexJS is an insurance for us, in case Flash goes away (which I hope won't happen in the next several years). We want to tell our potential customers what kind of Flex future-proofing is available to set their minds at ease.
I have some time at the moment to see how big an effort it is for us to convert to flexjs. I am sure that day to day work will start pressing soon. I will come back to flexjs in two or three months again to get a better estimate of our porting effect -- in other words, I see it as an iterative process. And I can thank folks enough for the help I am getting. By the way, I was trying to listen to the YouTube video Alex's talk at Flex 360. Given my hearing especially, the sound quality was hard for me to understand. One of my colleagues was asking about AMF in particular. Perhaps the link below talks about it. If not, I am wondering you could let me know about the plans for it in FlexJS. AMF is a key part of our apps -- one user updates the database on the server and the server pushes out the changes to all the users including the one who made the update; AMF is involved in this process. ________________________________ From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> To: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com>; "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Close, But Still Some Problems FlexJS in an 'alpha' level technology. That's why its version number is something like 0.0.1 or 0.0.2. As such, it won't have every feature of the current FlexSDK, and may never have every feature as some features will be nearly impossible to make work efficiently in JavaScript, especially in IE8. It might be worth your while to read up on some of the other wiki articles on FlexJS. Start here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS Basically FlexJS is not a magic bullet that will take an existing Flex app and make it run without Flash. It is not intending to emulate Flash in the browser. Instead, it is a new framework designed to run well in JS. It should have most, but not all, of the major concepts from Flex (states, binding, mxml). But you will have to do some work to get an existing app to run. So, create a test project without DCD support to try to get DataBindingTest to run. And yes, you will need to use the new UI widgets for now. -Alex From: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com> Reply-To: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, June 16, 2014 10:55 AM To: aharui <aha...@adobe.com>, "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Close, But Still Some Problems My java version is 1.7.0_55. I changed mxmlc.bat to specify c:\PROGRA~2\java\jre7\bin\java.exe as the fully qualified name of java.exe. I get the following error when I run the FalconJX tool: command line configuration variable 'compiler.library-path' value contains unknown token 'DCD_LIB_LOCATION'. ------------------------------------- Onto another topic, I am trying an existing app to run with FlexJS. I get "s:ButtonBar is not defined error". Is this a case of ButtonBar having to be replaced with another control? Thanks for helping me make progress on this effort of using FlexJS. ________________________________ From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> To: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com>; "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Close, But Still Some Problems Run java –version from the console to make sure you have a recent enough Java 7. Also see the comments in the bug FLEX-34258. To run the launch config, you may need to specify the path to java7. -Alex From: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com> Reply-To: V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, June 16, 2014 9:56 AM To: aharui <aha...@adobe.com>, "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Close, But Still Some Problems > Almost there! Agree. Thanks for your help. I am excited about "future-proofing" our apps. > As I suggested in one of my responses, if you have problems, please see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34258 I have been working with the above. DataBindingTest is a Web application. I copied the mxmlc.bat from FLEX-34258. I do have Java Version 7. I am getting the following error which is different from what Andrew Flach reported: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/flex/compiler/clients/MXMLJSC : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) Could not find the main class: org.apache.flex.compiler.clients.MXMLJSC. Program will exit. Exception in thread "main" ________________________________ From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org>; V Chandrasekhar <shake...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Problems Importing Configurations Almost there! As I suggested in one of my responses, if you have problems, please see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34258 -Alex On 6/16/14 8:42 AM, "V Chandrasekhar" <shake...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote: >I don't know how to add this to my existing thread, when I email instead >of using Nabble. > >I am trying to follow the instructions in > >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Using+FlexJS+with+Adobe+F >lash+Builder, specifically > >Once you have your app working as a SWF, try the FalconJX tool in the Run >menu. > > >Is this the FalconJX Debug and Release Build tool? > >I get the following error when I run this tool: > >using FlashBuilder Project Files >FlashBuilder settings: > -locale > en_US > -source-path+=C:\Users\shaker.chandrasekhar\Adobe Flash Builder >4.7\DataBindingTest/src > -compiler.accessible=true > -output=C:\Users\shaker.chandrasekhar\Adobe Flash Builder >4.7\DataBindingTest/bin-release/DataBindingTest.swf > -library-path+=C:\Users\shaker.chandrasekhar\Adobe Flash Builder >4.7\DataBindingTest/libs > -js-output-type=FLEXJS > -sdk-js-lib=c:\FlexJS\js\bin\..\..\frameworks\js\FlexJS\src > -fb > C:\Users\shaker.chandrasekhar\Adobe Flash Builder >4.7\DataBindingTest/src/DataBindingTest.mxml > >command line >Error: unknown configuration variable 'js-output-type'. > >Thanks.
