This is directly out of the http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf.
"The next major release of Flex, code-named Mistral, will provide an extensive set of new features. The class library will be extended with new and improved user interface components. An extended effects and skinning infrastructure will make it even easier to build highly expressive and branded applications. The Flex programming model will also leverage new industry standards, suck as E4X (ECMAScript for XML). Flex will also provide tight integration with functional testing tools and support usage analysis of RIAs. New data services are being added to Flex to support transparent data persistence across tiers, occasionally connected clients, data synchronization, a robust data push infrastructure, and paging large datasets. The new data services remove the need to write the traditionally complex and error-prone required to synchronize data between tiers. Modifications made at the client side can be persisted transparently to the server. Combined with existing persistence solutions used at the server side (like Hibernate and JDO), these services can provide an end-to-end, client application-to-database, persistence solution. The new data services also support offline data access: Data modifications made offline are stored in a persistent data store at the client side, and are synchronized with the server when the network becomes available. The data services will also manage the resolution conflicts to this type of system where multiple users may attempt to modify the same data at the same time. Collaboration is becoming an important aspect of an online experience. To enable development of collaborative applications, Flex will support presence, integration with enterprise instant messaging, and application sharing." Also out of the document: "The next major release of Flash Lite, code-named Deuce, except that it will be based on the Flash Player 7 and will elevate scripting for mobile applications to a more powerful level with ActionScript 2 support." I did not see any of this come across the wire today. Not to take anything away from the announcement about Zorn, but this is a bit more exciting for me. I stumbled upon this document while looking at the new great stuff today about Flash as a platform. http://www.macromedia.com/platform/. Take a look at the videos and the different PDFs. Jeff http://www.flexauthority.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
