Rick Bullotta wrote: >I also wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Flex client based on the Java >plug-in someday. When looking at the Flex class models, it has a lot of >similarities to Java rich client stuff - so who knows - maybe the Flash viewer >someday becomes classes deployed on a JVM! > > I'd actually be *very* surprised to see this. There was a Flash Player written in Java a long time ago that supported swf version 2. It was horrendously slow, and therefore abandoned. Granted Java has made some performance improvements since then, but how does moving from the Flash Player to the JVM help at all?
Flash is already available on a ton of devices, and Java's "write once run anywhere" mantra didn't pan out as much as Sun wanted it to especially in the mobile space. Flash is more portable in it's current codebase then it would be as a Java application, and it also runs faster as native code anyway. I don't see any reason why MM would want to invest the time in a Flash Player that runs on top of the JVM since it doesn't buy them performance or portability, but rather just a new series of headaches. -d ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hf4gbc9/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122911887/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
