Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Cheng
slangeberg wrote: Hey everyone, I know there exists an article/whitepaper from Adobe outlining the new AS3 VM2(?), but I can't find it. Anyone know where that is? I think it would be helpful for this gentleman's situation. A good place to start would be the Adobe Component Developer Summit

Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Feb 2007, Ralf Bokelberg wrote: Hi Ravi It sounds, like you have a rather good understanding of what is going on. When we talk about the VM, we have to talk about Flash. Flash is framebased like a movie. As a Flex developer, 99.% of the time, this does not matter to you

RE: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread Samuel R. Neff
Threading is one of the major missing features in Flex/Flash Player. Basically, the player is multi-threaded and some operations will happen asynchronously but ActionScript code always executes on the same thread. For example, when you make a HTTPService call the network code itself will run on

Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread slangeberg
Hey everyone, I know there exists an article/whitepaper from Adobe outlining the new AS3 VM2(?), but I can't find it. Anyone know where that is? I think it would be helpful for this gentleman's situation. Thanks, -Scott On 2/22/07, ravi kumar gummadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread slangeberg
Ok, here it is. Right on my desktop, wouldn't you know!: (not it, but worth looking) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html (this is it!) http://www.onflex.org/ACDS/AS3TuningInsideAVM2JIT.pdf =Scott On 2/22/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey

Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Hi Ravi It sounds, like you have a rather good understanding of what is going on. When we talk about the VM, we have to talk about Flash. Flash is framebased like a movie. In every frame all the scripts of all movieclips are executed, then all the system events are handled, be it load, timer,