Let's take a break from discussing the evil Apple empire and the end of the computing civilization as we know it! Two new "drag'n drop CRUD application building tools" will hit the street in the next few months: Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4) and JavaFX Composer (http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXComposer). Both seem to allow to connect to a data source (DB, web service) and generate a CRUD interface for it mostly automatically, allowing to quickly build simple data entry / retrieval apps.
Now both tools seem to be encumbered right from the start: For this drag'n drop stuff, Flash Builder relies on the server-side LiveCycle Data Services 3 framework that comes with "Oracle pricing" (about $30k per CPU, huge increase from version 2: http://flex.sys-con.com/node/1264181). JavaFX hasn't exactly taken the world by storm (see here for a rather bleak view: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/18/javafx_under_oracle/), and Sun's last effort in this area - Java Creator - failed. Microsoft has always dominated drag'n drop app building. And with Rails/Grails there are some popular "application generation" alternatives around, even though they shun drag'n drop. So, would see yourself using Flash Builder 4/JavaFX Composer to build "real applications"? Is there a huge market for these technologies that we just don't see because it's all just internal, departmental apps? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
