> Flex as a courseware presentation layer.
we're evaluating Flex as a front end to the Blackboard LMS
(alternative to the JSP templates), as well as custom interactive
tools and other ColdFusion-powered systems here.
> Does any one know if any of the known open source CMS out there (
mooodle, claroline , etc )...
we had a look at Moodle (I don't know of any other O/S ones). For us
(a university) moodle is promising but not quite there yet.
we're looking at Flex to integrate with Blackboard via webservices -
they've made it pretty much a closed system. but what we want to use a
Flash front end for, Blackboard will only be used for the dumb stuff
anyway (class lists, save results, etc). there's just not that many
hooks into the Blackboard "guts" (certainly not at the java value
objects level).
for our CF systems, it's a much better situation with the addition of
remoting and gateways.
> ... feature a modular business layer that would allow me to use a flex front-end instead of an HTML one?
again it comes down to integration.
AFAICS, Flex applications ( "<mx:Application...") lend itself nicely
to a "module" (of functionality) for a wide enterprise app - I
wouldn't put too much business logic in there since it gets compiled
into every SWF - just enough to do it's job and get it to talk
effectively to the back end system. BTW, we're flying the "Cairngorm
flag"
one final point:
this all still in evaluation. until the prices are finalised we're not
going to go in boots'n'all (yet). Flex may be "FREE" but what about CF
connectivity, FDS2.0, etc? and of course FlexBuilder 2.0...
> Feel free to answer in PVT to ...
CC'd but also kept onlist...any other educators out there? pls speak up.
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