RIA doesn't mean "no pages". There are situations where you have simply different pages. How you implement them, as different apps, modules or as a viewstack depends. But among other things, a RIA reduces page loading in many cases. In your example, the login can be a page and the calendar another page. But in the calendar page, if the user chooses to see the details of an item, edit an item, add a new one or add a comment for example, then you can do all this in one page. So I would split the app by functionality and implement the different parts independently, then you could put them on different pages or load them as modules.
Haykel Ben Jemia Allmas Web & RIA Development http://www.allmas-tn.com On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:54 PM, nycynik <m...@theinfluence.net> wrote: > I am new to flex and RIA in general. I have been working with .net > and java for a while now, and I am just starting to try to create a > new interface for some projects of mine, and thought flex might be the > answer, but I am having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that > its less like a web page, and more like a desktop application, to stop > thinking about page reloads, and start thinking about ViewStacks. > > So my original thought was to begin with multiple swf applications, > and convert parts of the site over one part at a time (for instance, > user registration, and then move on to the shared calendar, or another > part of the site). > > But after doing some reading, it seems that its better to build the > whole site as one application. Well I hope i can get some help, here > is my question.. > > ---------- > I did a lot of searching, and found a lot of posts that seem to > disagree. The basic question is: > > "I am building a big application for a website, using flex/swf as a > front end, and .net as a back end. How do I control the project so > that its not one monster swf file?" > > Answers seem to range between using a single ViewStack, to using > modules that you load in. Almost everyone wrote, to not build > multiple swf/flex projects and try to communicate between them using > .net or directly between swf files. > > ---------- > > I hope that is clear enough, so i should begin by learning about > loading and unloading modules? Is that right? > > Thanks, > Mike > > >
