Comments on: Javapolis 2006 – Building Sexy Web apps with Flex

By: Rob Janssen

Rob Janssen — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:43:05 +0000

Hi Arjaan,

It’s a small world afterall! Ook Ad\venture overweegt om t.b.v. een aanvullende dienst binnen het platform Flex te gebruiken. Uiteraard zal ik niet diegene zijn die daadwerkelijk aan de slag gaat met, maar van wat ik er tot nu toe van heb gezien. lijkt het mij een toegevoegde waarde hebben in aankomende ontwikkeling(en).

Wellicht als e.e.a. definitief is, dat wij nog contact met jou opnemen. met wij bedoel ik dan m.n. Rene Smit………..

Groet,

Rob Janssen
Ad\venture Media

By: Arjaan Peree

Arjaan Peree — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:01:40 +0000

Debugging a FLEX application is a great feature. Compare that with most RIA’s. Firebug will help, but is never as good as with the FLEX builder.

I expect a lot of Apollo. The integration of the flash runtime and the acrobat reader into one will give so much possibilities. Image the kind of pdfâ€™s you can create when you can use the (Apache Tamarin) scripting module: It is already possible to include a form in a pdf, but than you can also add powerful validations and conditional checks. I also think this is a smart move when adobe wants to compete with Microsoftâ€™s Vista with build in pdf creation and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

By: Waldo Smeets - Adobe

Waldo Smeets - Adobe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:27:33 +0000

Great summary of what Flex is and when it can be used! I think the last real advantage is that it gives you a true cross-platform development language; no debugging on different browsers or different operating systems any longer (and oh, did you see the Debugger in Flex Builder? ).

One final comment regarding Apollo; it doesn’t only do Flex/Flash and HTML/JavaScript, it will also do PDF!