On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:42 AM, GeorgeB wrote: > I am a fully occupied Flex v3 developer, and don't have spare time to switch > to Flex v4 before the projects I work on are over and done.
It might be a good idea to take on less projects, but for a higher margin. Not having time to study is not a good place to be long-term. > 1. What was the meaning of Adobe changing the name from Flex Builder (v3) to > Flash Builder, while keeping the upgrade path from v3 to v4? A better distinction between the free and commercial offerings. All commercial IDE offerings are branded Flash something, all the free open source stuff is branded Flex something. > 2. I used to call myself a Flex developer, i.e MXML plus AS3 programmer. > Should I have to call myself a Flash developer from now on? Why would you? You wrote in another message you work with Hibernate and BlazeDS. In those cases you identify yourself with the application / framework you work with. Why would you in the case of Flash/Flex identify yourself with the IDE? You are not calling yourself Eclipse or JBuilder developer just because that is the IDE you use for your Java development either. > 6. Also what's the future of BlazeDS after recent marketing developments on > LCESDS (or is it LCDSES?)? BlazeDS is the free, unsupported, open-source offering for fast communication with Java backends. It will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Adobe will continue to develop it. Adobe will not support it nor market it because it is not a source of revenue. LCDS will be supported and marketed because it is a source of revenue. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/
