Adobe has spent the year donating the Flex SDK and Falcon compilers to the Apache Software Foundation. While Adobe has a small set of people contributing to Flex in Apache and a team that shipped Flash Builder 4.7 and is working on subsequent Flash Builder release, Adobe is not leading the development of Flex and has not been for a full year. The future of Flex is in the hands of the Apache Flex community. This document should have made Adobe’s plans clear: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html
Meanwhile, there is plenty of activity in the Apache Flex community, including an effort to leverage ActionScript and MXML to write applications that can run without Flash, by translating ActionScript to JavaScript. If you like to use Flex, you may want to find a way to contribute to the Apache Flex project. The main page for the Apache Flex project is currently: http://incubator.apache.org/flex/ but will change if/when we become an official Apache top-level project. This document describes one approach to Flex without Flash. There are other approaches being investigated at this time. -Alex On 12/15/12 1:59 AM, "Sal" <sal.ce...@yahoo.com> wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Sal" <sal.celli@...> wrote: > > hi, > as i can sadly see from the message history bottom grid, many programmers > are leaving flex. > So this thread is to ask you all, if you have already found a valid > alternative to flex for RIA development. > After almost 1 year, it seems that Adobe itself gave us the answer releasing Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 without the design view. This is a straight message to all flex programmers telling us that Adobe has no more intention, and maybe neither a project group, to continue flex developing. So now, after this year of reflections and testing new products, what is the real alternative to flex? -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
