No serious Flex app that is really big would ever be one single SWF. No serious HTML site would be one giant HTML file with tons of JS in it either. Flex provides mechanisms for loading code as you need it.
Adobe's LiveCycle products are betting on Flex to allow for a family of SWFs where almost all the SWFs are Forms used to collect and view data passed around in a workflow. If government or Fortune 100 companies convert all of their paper forms into SWFs the app's size would be immense and probably not measurable as new forms would be added and old ones removed frequently, but I would expect that total bytes over the wire would be less and user productivity would be higher, and development and maintenance costs would be lower than the HTML/JS equivalent. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fotis Chatzinikos Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the largest Flex app? I'd agree with Nate. Flex is irrelevant to scaling. Check back end solutions. I would go for java and not php for example... There are lots of large sites that use php but then again they have monster servers. My experience is that java supports much more concurrent connections than php and that is without load balancing. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Samuel Neff <srneff.li...@gmail.com<mailto:srneff.li...@gmail.com>> wrote: Flex scales much better than HTML applications. It offloads a huge amount of work from the server to all of the clients and if you're using AMF or RTMP for data it greatly reduces the size of data sent over the wire are compared to HTML. Also AMF and RTMP are faster to serialize so it improves server performance compared to generating HTML. Not hard numbers, but I hope this helps. Thanks, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------- We're Hiring! Seeking passionate Flex or C# developer in the Washington D.C. Contact care...@blinemedical.com<mailto:care...@blinemedical.com> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Darrell Ross <darrell.r...@enablus.com<mailto:darrell.r...@enablus.com>> wrote: In a conversation with the former CTO of a very large media brand, he asked questions re: Flex's ability to scale. In his mind, "scale" means several million sessions per day. While we discussed some of the Flex charting components which are a part of Yahoo!Finance which see significant daily traffic, those are only components, not a complete app. So, I'm stumped and ask the community, "In terms of daily usage, what is the largest complete Flex app?" I underscore the term "complete". I'm not looking for pieces of apps that have been converted into Flex. I'm seeking out the biggest app where the entire enchilada is deployed as a SWF. Any guesses? Darrell Ross Enablus, LLC www.enablus.com<http://www.enablus.com> -- Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. Founder, Phinnovation fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com<mailto:fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com>,
