Maybe show them Bruce Eckels take on this? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593
If they don't know him, he is the guy who wrote the famous Java book "Thinking in Java"<http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ4> ) Cheers Ralf On 9/27/07, Giles Roadnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am leaving my current job in about a month and a suggestion has been > made that as I am leaving it would be better to re-write our flex / > coldfusion sites in jsp and java as that is what the larger company as > a whole uses. > > I need some couter arguments but don't know enough about Java. > > Replacing coldfusion with jsp is less of an issue but I Think that > Flex is very well suited for the front end. > > The site I've worked with most is used for managing customer accounts > and viewing information about them. There are screen for ssearchign > for accounts, setting up accounts with e-mail lists and a lot of reports. > Basically most of the site loads data and displays it in datagrids. > > What arguments can we use to convince people that flex is the way to > go rather than jsp / java? > > Thanks > > Giles > > > -- Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany Phone +49 (0) 221 530 15 35

