Fair enough. Nevertheless, Flash
ubiquity will be key, regardless of technology.
Thanks for the thoughts.
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darron J. Schall
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 9:53
AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Hope all
is watching the Avalon space..
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
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