Hi Dude, I'll do my best to answer a few of your questions.
mthielman11 wrote: > Hello everyone. I have beeen following flex for quite sometime during the > beta process. I > am currently beginning work on a large scale web based application. We are > basically > migrating several different apps, some web based, some java based, to a new > platform. > We have spent the last couple of months exploring a JSP based solution > running on Resin > and connecting to a java based API with MySQL on the back end. I am now > considering > flex. > > The app is a medical management based app that will consist of several > different modules > which all provide different, though related funcitonality. Things like > browsing a medical > claim, enter a medical bill. > > I have a couple questions. > > 1. IS flex well suited for large, multi module apps? Can it provide any > real advantage or > JSP? > Yes. Flex was built to scale to the conditions you describe. It also uses a new ActionScript Virtual Machine AVM1 in Flash Player 9 that is extremely fast. > 2. Is the application just one big MXML file with many states or lots of > little MXML files? > Or a combination of some kind, such as each module is an MXML with different > states? > Depends what is being built. What I have seen that works, is that you have one main application mxml page and numerous other mxml components or mxml files. There is documentation being written now exactly on how to go about this. There is also a thing called Cairngorm that has a sort of setup already created for large scale enterprise level apps that you can use to get "right to it" so to speak. > 3. IS FDS the best way to interact with a java API or are there other ways? > > 4. HOw do I run the app? Can it run on resin? I see it can be deployed as a > WAR file but > have yet to figure out how to do that. > You publish to a SWF file and upload that a server. The SWF is embedded in an HTML file. The SWF file makes calls to to myriad of services on the server similar to how a form is submitted in html. Flex also uses addtional protocol called ActionScript Message Format or AMF if you will. AMF allows for highly compressed and extremely fast communication. A lot of additional resources are coming out as soon as next week. I'm talking about books here. There are already new articles daily online. I am confident that Flex will be the best tool for the job. Judah PS I have come from a similar background > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." "You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." - Abraham Lincoln ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/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/
