Galen,
Funny you should bring this topic up. We are in the final stages of moving
a "content-management-like" application to Flex as well. Here are some
issues to consider before writing the entire application in Flex:
- Flash player only supports very basic html formatting (No tables/css
etc....). This was a major issue for us since our content contained html
table formatted text.
- Flash Rich Text Editor isn't very 'Rich'. Only very simple formatting is
available. We had to use a pop up with FckEditor to get the functionality
we needed.
- Report formatting is difficult. Simple things like looping over record
sets and performing basic report formatting was challenging. We ended up
doing pop ups in CF/html for our reports.
- Development proved to be very slow and tedious when compared to CF/html
development. Partly due to lack of expertise and being a new technology
that hasn't had years of evolution.
- Lack of people in the area that know Flex. It is difficult to find people
with Flex experience to develop/maintain a Flex application.
Flex does have some really cool features. However, in future projects I
will use a more traditional CF/html ui framework and only use Flex for the
interactive components that it does really well.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents..... :-)
Scott
From: "Smallen, Galen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [DFW CFUG] Thoughts on move to Flex Front-End
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:00:23 -0600
Does anyone have any pointers on moving Cold Fusion front end applications
to a flex front end.
The primary application I am dealing with is an intranet based
"content-management-like" application that has role-base security and
current "houses" 8 "sub-applications" pertaining to different business
processes.
I am interested in moving the whole application to Flex, but wasn't sure if
that was the best move. I could also go the route of moving just the
"content" pages to flex, especially the administrative side.
Any in-sights/comments/flames... etc. welcome.
Thanks.
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Sr. IT Systems Analyst
Quality Data Systems
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