Re: [DFW CFUG] Why Cold Fusion vs Java? vs PHP? vs .ASP? etc.

[Christopher Jordan]

Before I get flamed.... :o) Christopher Jordan wrote:   Personally, I see Adobe pushing Flex as the choice for developing front-ends and using CF as the means of providing data to Flex.  I agree, and this is why I (for one) am making the effort to learn Flex. I don't personally like HTML and such for making web apps. It seems some how less elegant (imo). Maybe "less elegant" is not the way to put it. Less efficient, maybe? Somehow, it seems like the wrong way to do it. A friend of mine and I talk about this subject quite a bit, and most of our solutions end up sounding like a thin client or like re-writing the browser to work differently somehow. Mostly I think we gripe about the chore of writing cross-browser compliant code, and how we don't have the kind of control we'd like to have over the window in which our apps appear. I think Flex (for now) is really the answer to this. The only thing it's lacking is access to the client machine's file system. I know, I know... security risk. But compiled programs that folks buy at the store or download off the net have that same potential security risk. I wouldn't be adverse to flash (or the browser) popping up a security warning for programs it has detected which have access to the file system.  Mostly, I don't care because I'm writing legitimate apps that companies run on their own equipment, and not stuff that's being downloaded and used by the general population. Anyway, just thought I ought to clarify. :o) Chris

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