Hi, I would use AIR as it runs on the platforms and projects you need, and I would have faith in the wonderful apache flex community. Bruce
On 3 February 2012 17:26, filippo dipisa <fili...@dipisa.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I want to rise some thoughts on the immediate future of Flex, considered by > the Java world side > > At the moment we are using Flex 4.5, parsley, bla bla bla, as the > presentation layer of some JEE applications as I think many of you are > doing. > > 1)My problem is, if you have to start a greenfield project web based, would > you use Flex or go for another RIA solution like GWT that already targets > html5? > At the moment I think that many people out there they will try to avoid > Flex because is Flashplayer driven, they don't trust Adobe anymore and it > is not supported by the tablet or /smartphones. > And many others are strugglimg to make their webapp compatible with tablet > or smartphone. > > 2)If you start a client(desktop)/server project should you use Scala and > JavaFx( that now you can use also in Swing applications) or Flex and Air? > At the moment few people is using JavaFx but could become popular because > you can use it with Scala and Swing applications, boths are very popular > into the enterprise development. > > 3)If you want to start a mobile or webtv project should we use Flex or > Android? > At the moment there are few webtv that supports the flashplayer 10.2, so > even here if I need to target an application for a webtv my choice wouldn't > be Flex at the moment. > > These questions are just to raise a discussion to understand what we have > to do and where we want to go in order to compete with such above mentioned > framework, and to convince the world outside to continue to start using > Flex in the next year. > > I think this is very important to give back faith to Flex at this stage. > > Thanks a lot for your clarifications. > > Filippo
