I once was in love with everything Macromedia, including JRUN and ColdFusion.
When Adobe took over, it broke my heart. I've never been in love with Adobe,
never have, never will.
regards,
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain Ekambi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: future of flash (yes, that old chestnut again)
Going to add my 2cents to this.
I m one the guy behind Emitrom.
I created a Java API for the Flash platform called Flash4j(
http://emitrom.com/flex4j).
Which allows Java Devs to write Flash apps in Java.
Despite all the "Flash is dead" talk our experience has been the totally
opposite. Flash4j is by faar the most successfull products we have. We
havent seen any drop in demand. Actually the demand is soo high that we are
looking to add people.
Flash still does certain things better and efficiently than JavaScript (for
example clientside file generation) and this wont change anytime soon.
And off course certain things can be done with pure JS that was only
available to Flash. The question is how long does it take to get the same
result.
The problem we always had with Flash/Flex applications is that for
something that runs in the browser the interoperability with JavaScript is
pretty poor (ActionScript beeing the other problem but that s another
story).
To us it s not a Flash vs HTML5 talk. But how to leverage BOTH to create an
unique experience for our customers.
One of the things we are currently working on for example is how to
seamlessly integrate the Google Maps JS API in a Flex app.
This post actually summarizes the situation pretty good
http://thonbo.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/where-is-adobe-going-with-flash-after-max-conclusions/
Cheers
