Comments on: A Review of the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Landscape/Flex http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/ Enterprise Software Consultant Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon Rose’s Blog » Blog Archive » Flex & Java http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-7164 Jon Rose’s Blog » Blog Archive » Flex & Java Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:56:24 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-7164 [...] got done reading an interesting post by Gerard Mason on Flex & Java developers. He points to my post last year on the RIA Landscape and Flex. Near the end he states he surprised at the black lash on “in-browser” Java technologies: So, [...] [...] got done reading an interesting post by Gerard Mason on Flex & Java developers. He points to my post last year on the RIA Landscape and Flex. Near the end he states he surprised at the black lash on “in-browser” Java technologies: So, [...]

]]> By: Franck Wolff http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-794 Franck Wolff Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:13:47 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-794 Hello, Granite Data Services 0.3.0 is released. Granite Data Services is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe® Flex™ 2 Data Services for J2EE application servers with EJB3/Spring/Pojo services support. Free download is available on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183386. This new 0.3.0 release (following a 0.3.0_RC1) brings security service support, improved transparent externalization performance, detailed logging facilities, revamped and extended ActionScript3 code generation tool, as well as many bug fixes. It should be stable enough for non critical production use. Detailed release notes and documentation are available on http://www.graniteds.org. Regards, Franck Wolff. Hello,

Granite Data Services 0.3.0 is released.

Granite Data Services is a free, open source (LGPL’d), alternative to Adobe® Flex™ 2 Data Services for J2EE application servers with EJB3/Spring/Pojo services support.

Free download is available on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183386.

This new 0.3.0 release (following a 0.3.0_RC1) brings security service support, improved transparent externalization performance, detailed logging facilities, revamped and extended ActionScript3 code generation tool, as well as many bug fixes. It should be stable enough for non critical production use.

Detailed release notes and documentation are available on http://www.graniteds.org.

Regards,
Franck Wolff.

]]> By: Pedro Estrada http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Pedro Estrada Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:41:54 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-144 Your experience mirrors my own. I shied away from Ajax, it seemed like a big ugly hack to me. Flex does away with a lot of the discontinuities with classic web development. I find it much easier to develop an application as a client that has an overall persistent state than as a series of requests/responses with state as a session. I've been building desktop apps for a long time felt too constrained with web based approaches. Flex allows a richer way to create applications that are painless to deploy over the web. Your experience mirrors my own. I shied away from Ajax, it seemed like a big ugly hack to me. Flex does away with a lot of the discontinuities with classic web development. I find it much easier to develop an application as a client that has an overall persistent state than as a series of requests/responses with state as a session. I’ve been building desktop apps for a long time felt too constrained with web based approaches. Flex allows a richer way to create applications that are painless to deploy over the web.

]]> By: Chester Chiperfield http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Chester Chiperfield Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:07:59 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-92 Great post Jon, I think you are spot on with comments about Ajax and pushing beond natural boundries. I think it has been taken as far as it can, and with Flex we have only scratched the surface of what we can do with it. Great post Jon, I think you are spot on with comments about Ajax and pushing beond natural boundries. I think it has been taken as far as it can, and with Flex we have only scratched the surface of what we can do with it.

]]> By: jimmy http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-23 jimmy Sat, 26 May 2007 14:16:16 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-23 <p>Give Sun a break, let's see what they'll come up with. The do have an advantage of learning from the current players. The more players the better!</p> Give Sun a break, let’s see what they’ll come up with. The do have an advantage of learning from the current players. The more players the better!

]]> By: bjorn http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-19 bjorn Wed, 23 May 2007 08:32:39 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-19 Welcome to the Flex community, Jon :-) I recommend everyone starting with Flex to join the flexcoders mailing list. It's a great resource. Welcome to the Flex community, Jon :-)

I recommend everyone starting with Flex to join the flexcoders mailing list. It’s a great resource.

]]> By: James Ward - RIA Cowboy » Blog Archive » Jon Rose is Thinking in Flex! http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-18 James Ward - RIA Cowboy » Blog Archive » Jon Rose is Thinking in Flex! Wed, 23 May 2007 00:50:52 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-18 [...] “For me, Flex is clearly the way to go.” [...] [...] “For me, Flex is clearly the way to go.” [...]

]]> By: jonr http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-3 jonr Sun, 20 May 2007 06:10:48 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-3 Great point/question Ed… Flex actually uses CSS as the main control to the look and feel of a Flex application, through CSS there is access to all of the typical style properties (colors, fonts, etc…). In addition, they do support skinning to change the actual look of the components through out an application. I haven’t spent any time looking at how to create custom skins, but you can find some example skins built by the community at: http://scalenine.com/. Great point/question Ed… Flex actually uses CSS as the main control to the look and feel of a Flex application, through CSS there is access to all of the typical style properties (colors, fonts, etc…). In addition, they do support skinning to change the actual look of the components through out an application. I haven’t spent any time looking at how to create custom skins, but you can find some example skins built by the community at: http://scalenine.com/.

]]> By: Ed http://gorillajawn.com/wordpress/2007/05/17/a-review-of-the-rich-internet-applications-ria-landscapeflex/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Ed Sat, 19 May 2007 20:28:47 +0000 http://ectropic.com/wordpress/?p=3#comment-2 I think the tooling is really important in finding the "right horse" in the fat-client-framework space, and I would expect Adobe/Macromedia to do us right in that space. Rich clients are the ur-MVC environment, but I would say that a lot of our experience with web applications has sort of intoduced a "skin" layer beyond the View. How do things like skins and css fit into Flex? I think the tooling is really important in finding the “right horse” in the fat-client-framework space, and I would expect Adobe/Macromedia to do us right in that space.

Rich clients are the ur-MVC environment, but I would say that a lot of our experience with web applications has sort of intoduced a “skin” layer beyond the View. How do things like skins and css fit into Flex?

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