Hi, We're looking at Flex for a new project, but I am a little wary of making such a big jump and trying to take a long hard look at it before we do. We're looking at the free approach - using the Flex 2 SDK, receiving XML from Spring backend.
I'm sure everyone here loves it ;-), but I was wondering if I could solicite a few honest responses to the following questions? 1) Performance - our main concern. What areas are subject to some of the flash player performance issues? Any hints on how to design for best performance? How does it compare with Ajax? 2) Support - concerned that it's not open source. What happens if we find a show-stopping bug? Is it possible to subclass classes in the SDK? Does the SDK come with source? 3) Existing Bugs - is there a bugs database? What bugs exist that can't be worked around? 3) Licensing - what does the phrase "There are some limitations in the license that restricts the redistribution of the SDK in commercially distributed software." mean here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2006/06/flex_20_now_ava.cfm? 4) Testing - I know there is some support for automated testing, but can it actually test the UI we ship with? 5) We need to create a web app that can have different sub-apps plugged into it. Can Flex support this? Suggestions how? Many thanks!! David
