I should start by saying that I have not done this with flex, but I have both lead and been involved in many projects where we have had to retro-fit to IBM. The experience has been chastening and it is never a straighforward task. Have you got your AIX hardware up and running with the IBM software actually operating yet? Have you identified any expertise either internally or externally who has experience in AIX? Have you teased out of your client (or whoever is requesting this step) whether it stops at AIX or whether you need to go to DB2 and WebSphere? If not then go and do that first.
I'm not sure why you would need to compile any flex code under AIX. The only reason to do that would be if your clients were running their browsers on AIX. Is that the case? The swf and html you generate in flex is piped across to the client machine and run there inside the FlashPlayer, not on the server. So I don't think you need the Flex Builder anywhere other than Windows (or maybe Mac if you prefer to work on a Mac) because your clients are probably running IE on Windows. As for the server, how you should do it and how hard your job will be will depend upon the language you have implemented your server side components in, the application server you are using and the features of your app. If you have a database my bet is the next question you'll get asked is to put it on DB2 and WebSphere, it's part of the IBM religious canon. If you have a C++ back end then you'll need to get familiar with the AIX compiler and get ready to have to change all your code. If you are C# I have no clue how you would go about it, although I bet there is a story. If you are Java you are in better shape, but watch out for differences in XML parsers and compliance to "standard" interfaces like SQL/JDBC. IBM are as bad as Microsoft for implementing their own versions of standards. You have done the right thing by downloading the AIX server components from Adobe. Now you need to assemble your server in whatever AIX technology is available. Get AIX releases of your app server, database etc. and get it all that stood up and running and delivering pages of any kind. You will probably find all sorts of challenges with that alone if this is your first time with IBM. Once you have done that, and presuming you have been reasonably well behaved, then in theory you should be able to recompile your Java code under AIX and it should run (in theory you should be able to just deploy the same Java component, but that is very unlikely to work). I think you have enough work just to get there. I suspect your situation will either change or become clearer once you have got to that point. Best of luck SP Unrequested editorial comment: If it wasn't for IBM strong-arming its partners, AIX/DB2/WebSphere would have been consigned to the dustbin years ago. It's not that they are really that bad - although DB2 is a bit of a nightmare - it's not even because they are very difficult and subtle and the skills are not widely available - although that is all true too, the real kicker is that there are better things out there which are either free or lower cost. The IBM "blue stack" only exists because IBM would look very silly taking anything else into its clients and it forces its partners and customers to comply because of its size and because it wants license revenue from its software products which it would otherwise never get. Eventually this rigging of the market will have to stop and I thought they had seen sense with their investment in Linux, but the AIX dinosaur rolls on. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "sanjaypmg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have developed an application for windows... Its working fine > everywhere but now I have to make the whole application running on > AIX too... > > Can anyone tell me, how can I do it? > > I mean What are the steps or some installation guidelines to compile > the MXMLs for AIX.. > > I have already downloaded "Flex Data Services 2 Express" for AIX > from ADOBE.com. > > I have already "Flex Build for Windows", Do I need to download "Flex > Builder 2" for MAC or other OS? > > Once I get these sofwares, which steps do I need to follow to make > my application working on AIX? > > Please help to do the same..... > > Thanks in Advance.... > SS >
