Mykola, Mmh, It's all about taking the better road...
Let's start with a premise: Flex 1.5 CAN be used to develop mission critical applications ( evidence suggests this ). As can all of the frameworks you suggested. Second, I would say that Flex has the following differentiating features in favor. See which apply to you: - Development will be faster - Will force you to create a well defined services layer. You can evolve the presentation layer later - You will gain RIA expertise that can be ported to Flex2 later ( or XAML or other eventually ) - The final user will be positively impressed ( assuming you do a good work ) - You will have many new tricks which will eventually give you more choices around use cases - One more tech under your belt Then, write down the flaws ( or negative features ) which you already identified. Repeat the process for every other tech, then match by subject and fill in a comparison matrix. Try to quantify them. I have found that taking a cold minded economist's perspective sometimes comes in handy. Specially when there are feelings involved. Getting someone else in the decision process might help, and keeping track of it is always a good way to CYA. It's all about choices, not perfect solutions, isn't it. Best, Aldo On 11/28/05, Steven Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mykola, > > I've been asking around internally at Macromedia before I knew if I > could say this or not... > > > >> - no i18n support on mxml level > > >I believe Macromedia did not want to risk a strategy upfront, before > > >realizing what the real requirements were... > > >Could someone from macromedia develop on this? > > >What is the state of things now? Will the new Cairngorm support it? > > >will it be integrated into Flex2 later? IDE Support? > > >You know, it is a critical common requirement ( every app > > nowadays is > > >intlzed ) > > Again we've added it to our framework. But I see no reason > > why MM guys haven't done it themselves > > OK, so Internationalization support using resource bundles is part of > the upcoming Flex 2 release. I don't have any other details I can share > at present however, but I'm sure more will be revealed during the Flex 2 > alpha. > > I hope you can understand, that with the underlying Flex framework > supporting internationalisation, we didn't feel it necessary to > hand-bake our own solution for Cairngorm. Cairngorm has always been > about guiding architecture, not providing services to the developer as > such. > > Once the spec and implementation for internationalisation is tied down > however, I'd suspect that we might put forward ideas as to how the > feature can be leveraged within a Cairngorm application, if that is > appropriate. > > My apologies I couldn't share this information sooner ! > > Best wishes, > > Steven > > -- > Steven Webster > Practice Director (Rich Internet Applications) > Macromedia Consulting EMEA > > Office: + 44 (0) 131 338 6108 > Mobile: +44 (0) 7917 428 947 > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- ::::: Aldo Bucchi ::::: mobile (56) 8 429 8300 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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/
