Flex, in it's present form, does not handle connectivity issues well.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. I have no problem "connecting" to flash/flex apps. Of course if the internet connection is down then things wont work, but that's not a flex issue.
While it's possible to do, Flex can't save anything to the user's local hard drive, so "saved" information is only saved while the browser window is open.
Actually, flash has local sharedObjects that allow an application to save data locally.
Maybe some clever Flash guru can make me eat my words :)However, if I understand correctly, Adobe's upcoming technology, Apollo, will allow for this sort of thing (a flex-built desktop app with limited / occasional connections to the server).
I'm not sure he was concerned about occasional connections to the server. He simply said remotely served application.
Shan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Junk E-Mail - MED] [flexcoders] A general Flex application deployment question..My wife works in education and her school subscribes to a remote service
that supplies web based information via the internet. When it works they
love it but it's gotten a pretty awful nickname for the times it doesn't or
is just plain slow.
The important point here is that it's a good application, supplied from a
remote server, but seen as unreliable either due to internet connectivity
problems or speed.
Forgetting the speed problem (there's usually ways to sort that out), I
wondered how people are using Flex as a remotely served application. Are
there good strategies to mitigate connection problems and how do companies
react to the idea of remotely served applications that are
important/critical to the business?
Is the critical desktop application where Flex cannot go (except perhaps by
in-house intranet)?
Paul
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