[Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-02 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi, I'd like to introduce this discussion thread in relation to the "Life after FlashPlayer" thread. You may want to discuss some things or have questions about others' decisions... Thanks, Olaf -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.246.n4.nabble.com/

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-02 Thread Olaf Krueger
@Petr Nemecek >We've decided to go to Java (back to roots)... Hi Petr, I just wonder why you don't just move to AIR? Is it "just" because you have lost all confidence in Adobe? Thanks, Olaf -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.246.n4.nabble.com/

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-02 Thread Olaf Krueger
@reisan lukelog >converting to angularcli some openui5 As an SAP developer, I am interested in your "OpenUI5" experience. In my perception SAP doesn't push it as they promised years ago and it feels to me that they are always behind others... but maybe I am wrong... Thanks, Olaf -- Sent from

RE: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-02 Thread Petr Nemecek
AM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer @Petr Nemecek >We've decided to go to Java (back to roots)... Hi Petr, I just wonder why you don't just move to AIR? Is it "just" because you have lost all confidence in Adobe? Thanks, Olaf

RE: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-02 Thread Olaf Krueger
> ...they will find a way how to kick it out, if they will decide to do so. As I understand it, that's one reason why Adobe is pushing/promoting the "AIR Captive Runtime" the last years... However, thanks for sharing your thoughts, Petr! Olaf -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.246.n4

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-10 Thread alexispring
The best way i think is to migrate your projects to HTML or Angular etc. I mean, there're lots of issues coming around Flex lately. Can't imagine what is going to happen when they cease the support... Here's a nice and precise article i found, that might help to figure some staff. http://www.intex

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-10 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi, > I mean, there're lots of issues coming around Flex lately. What do you mean with issues around Flex? Adobe has donated the Flex SDK to Apache in 2011 or so, it's open source and maintained by the Flex community for a long time. >Here's a nice and precise article i found, that might help t

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-11 Thread bilbosax
Olaf, I am very familiar with Flash and with Adobe Air and have used Flex to develop for both. Now I mostly do Adobe Air mobile and desktop development. But if I wanted to get back into the browser bit, I wonder how I would do it these days. It looks like most people do HTML5, JS, and CSS. This

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-14 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi, >What frameworks are most people doing Flash-like work in the browser these days? I guess you find particular ideas of the Flex/Flash world at a lot of those frameworks out there. Most mentioned are probably Angular and React. >Is FlexJS a possible way to do this... First, please notice t

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-14 Thread scott matheson
Hi So I am not a deep deep developer, i have been working with Flex for web apps for 7 years and I love it, however from what i have read, it is a significant amount of work to move, there is no one to one mapping of MXML, I also think you have to change code, so there is significant effort,

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-14 Thread Piotr Zarzycki
Hi Scott, Definitely if you would like to move your Flex app to Royale you will have to rewrite you UI part from scratch. There is ongoing effort in Royale called Emulation [1] which can simply decrease work with rewriting. However there couple of main points which can really help with moving whi

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-15 Thread alexispring
Hello and thanks for reply. You see, in this article, we’ve been talking about this situation based on our company’s experience. Such requests for migration are very frequent at the moment. So this article is for people who want to migrate their projects or might be thinking about it like our cust

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-15 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi, first sorry for my tone but I was a bit annoyed. I've no concerns with showing alternatives or introducing other technologies. Anyone of us has to take care of being up-to-date and always learning new stuff. I noticed that you mentioned the browser in your article but what I still criticize is

Re: [Discussion] Life after FlashPlayer

2018-05-15 Thread After24
Hi, This article is similar to the dozens of other ones involving flash, flash player, flex and death... most of the time written by people who don't know a lot about the flash/flex ecosystem. /" In addition to Flash, they are also going to stop support for Flex, which is a framework for web-appl