Hi, I am not a contributing member to this group, but I take time off each day to read through the emails and follow the progress that Apache Flex is making. I personally feel that it is a great tool with huge potential, otherwise so many talented individuals would not have committed so much time to the project. A lot of progress has been made and there is a vision the team is working towards.
I still use Flex/Java for my clients and it is still the quickest way to develop enterprise applications. Over the next month I plan to start using Flex/Air for mobile applications. Regards, Sugan Naicker South Africa -----Original Message----- From: Shervin Asgari [mailto:shervin.asg...@webstep.no] Sent: 28 February 2013 11:10 AM To: users@flex.apache.org; Terry Corbet Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology If I where you, I would start looking at other technologies. I personally do not believe there is any future in Flex when Adobe has dropped support of Flash to android, and there is none in the iphone/ipad market. Why would you then create a Flex app, that will cross-compile to HTML/JS/CSS etc when you can write it your self, and have more control of what the output will be? Actionscript is pretty similar to JS, so the leap wouldn't be difficult at all. Anyways, just my 2 cents. 2013/2/28 Terry Corbet <tcor...@ix.netcom.com> > Why is it that you fail to see that each time you advertize your rush > to cross-compiling MXML to HTML/CSS/Javascript and never provide > status concerning the compilation of MXML to run in the AIR > environment you are causing the very anxiety that we all deal with? > You know that your employer is going to stop shipping the old compiler > in favor of the new compiler. You know that the Gaming Guru will not > let any resource be devoted to having the new compiler successfully > compile Flex, i.e. Spark Components. So, exactly where are we > supposed to feel confident that the Apache Flex project will let us > maintain 'parity' [your favoirite word] in regards to compiling our > AIR MXML applications with the new compiler? I have every reason to > believe that you will achieve your objective, which is to have the > Falcon work let you cross-compile to the environment that you believe > has future possibilities, and, as long as one person is on loan one > day per week, to get MXML compilation working, not much reason whatsoever to believe that on-going developoment of AIR applictions has a future. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> > To: <users@flex.apache.org>; > <flex-users@incubator.apache.**org<flex-us...@incubator.apache.org> > > > Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM > > Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology > > > > > > On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, "Devesh Mishra" <devesh.mis...@mastek.com> wrote: > > Hi, >> >> Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are >> no big improvements are coming in Flex. According to today's >> scenario, Flex is only for desktop application and we are entering >> into mobile technology. So it's a bit difficult to understand the >> future existence of Flex. >> >> If we talk from market point of view, everyone is moving towards >> HTML5/Android/Ios, after Adobe declaration for no support in Flash/Flex. >> > Adobe did not say "no support". Adobe is still supporting Flash, and > you can still purchase Flex support contracts from Adobe. Adobe > donated Flex to Apache so it can continue to be developed in the open. > Adobe continues to make releases of Flash. > > Still, lots of people are moving to HTML5/Android/IOS, and so is > Apache Flex. If you monitor the d...@flex.apache.org mailing list you > will see that we are hard at work on trying to cross-compile MXML and > ActionScript to HTML/JS/CSS which can then be run through > PhoneGap/Cordova to create mobile apps. It is still in its infancy > and we have lots of work ahead, but we are making progress. > > See [1] for more on one approach we are taking. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%** > 27s+FlexJS+Prototype<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/ > 27s+FlexJS+Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototype> > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2641/6135 - Release Date: > 02/26/13 > > >
