Re: Adobe's RIA Technologies

Nathan,

I believe there is some amount of code sharing in Flex; I do not know
if it is by copy or reference. I haven't gotten that far in my
experimentation with it. I do know that it is fairly easy to use Flex
as a thin UI layer, communicating with web services that wrapper your
back end. You can do quite a bit with Flex, which has its plusses and
minuses. The temptation to include business logic would be great.

We were very interested in Flex, but now that we are starting to see
good mobile browsing experiences, I'm not as sold on it. Of course,
if you keep all your logic on the server side and expose it in simple
ways like RESTful web services, you're prepping yourself for the
future.

Mike E.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: "Dean, Robert"
My primary complaint about Flash-based applications is
that the browser back button is pretty much useless.

That's not a problem for me. Google Chrome even offers an option for running applications without an address bar and standard navigational buttons. It's not like applications need a Back button. MS Outlook doesn't have a Back button, for example. Most of my applications run in a portal, which offers navigational links, and I can press the Esc key to cancel modal activities like data entry and popup prompts.

If I were developing applications that ran under Flash I'd be more concerned about code reuse. In fact, that's an important question. Can you share code libraries, windows, and forms across multiple applications? And if so, are they shared by copy or by reference?

Nathan.




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