Obviously this may sound harsh, but because the app you wrote was
buggier or harder to build isn't a reflection of the technology in my
opinion. I've been following this thread pretty closely and have begun
going through all the responses. Flex to me has seemed to discredit a
lot of the flash developers out there buy putting advanced functionality
at the finger tips of the average user.
I do think that flex will eventually be leveraged correctly, but the
idea that a whole new IDE must be built simply to build form based
applications is bizarre to me. I have to imagine that the potential for
Flex would extend far beyond Form RIA or else it wouldn't exist. But
then again, that's macromedia for you.
The other issue i see with flex is it's ability to scale. It doesn't
seem to have the ability to handle a ton of simultaneous connections
very well, ala Flash Media Server. Perhaps I'm off base here, but I'd
prefer to develop the front ends in flash and communicate back and forth
with a traditional back-end I.E. ASP, PHP, etc. Those things are free
to develop on, more prove and seemingly scale a hell of a lot better.
Yes, it's not as simple as an "EASY" button, but if work was easy it'd
be fun and we'd all be broke.
Merrill, Jason wrote:
At my previous employer, wanted to build a project with Flex 1.5, client
couldn't/wouldn't pay for it, so we built it with Flash - took 5 times
longer, and was 5-times buggier but it was do-able. Basically had to
write the same kinds of classes for Flash that macromedia already built
for Flex, and make it renderable by descriptive XML. It was a fun
project, but I wish I had Flex. It was a very large interactive portal
with different elements which also displayed metrics dashboards.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America | www.bankofamerica.com
Learning & Organization Effectiveness
Technology Solutions
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash IDE
This may be a dumb question, but has anyone ever developed a project in
Flex and towards the end decided that Flash would have been a better
tool for the project? Or vice-a-versa?
If so, why? I'm trying to determine if there are any pitfalls of
deciding to use Flex over Flash for larger projects.
Hope that makes sense...
Doug Coning
Senior Web Development Programmer
FORUM Solutions, LLC
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