Flex does have Socket support so you *could* write the IMAP client in Flex BUT one of the nice things about JavaFX is that I'm sure an IMAP library already exists in Java. This is one thing that I hope Alchemy solves in the future. Alchemy allows you to go from something to LLVM to AS3. Currently it's working with C but it should also work with Java. More info: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
-James -----Original Message----- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Kent Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 5:58 PM To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: #230: JavaFX vs. Flash/Flex/Silverlight Joshua Marinacci wrote: > Components: JavaFX currently has only the TextBox component. > ... we are planning a full set of new components Any ETA on the components? How rich? For my personal needs its things like tables with sortable columns with lots of values, so you need to lazily load subsets of the data (not download the whole lot and search). Fairly typical database access stuff. Another thing that I was confused about was the ability of all the RIA platforms to embed richly marked up content (say XHTML) for display purposes. For example, think of a mail client with summary lists, lots of mail in your inbox, and HTML marked up email messages. This could a cool demo too as you could hook the javax.mail libraries directly in, doing IMAP etc completely in the one program - no sever side required. An example of something JavaFX could do that Flex could not. (Flex I believe would require a server process to talk to in order to do the IMAP side of things.) Alan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
