Comments on: Off-Topic: Adobe’s Software Trial Download Madness…

By: william

william — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:33:09 +0000

Flex is great if you’re doing a quick form or other data-handling app, but for a richer app with animation, effects, etc. Flash is still the way to go.

Unfortunately, Adobe removed the WebService component from Flash. Previously you could insert a WebService component, set up the WSDL, and perform calls on the soap methods to receive result object that Flash would parse, or fault objects. You can’t do that now, but the new XML object in Flash is much better, since it uses E4X syntax, which is similar to how you’d get data using XPath.

By: pmularien

pmularien — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:17:37 +0000

Thanks, I’ve experimented with Flex a few times over the past couple years, most extensively when Air 1.0 was released. In this particular case, it was Flash I wanted – but thanks for the suggestions!

By: Brian Swartzfager

Brian Swartzfager — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:53:57 +0000

John’s right: if the goal is to create applications with a Java/Ruby back-end and a Flash-powered UI, Flex is what you want.

By: john smith

john smith — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:43:58 +0000

Get Flex instead. It will integrate with Java very easily and produces flash files…and the trial is there.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/