All Over Software Jobs: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Staying with Flex until I see what happens with it during its first year as an Apache project. I expect big improvements and many new and cool features, it will only depend on Adobe if it will follow with the player.

Haykel Ben Jemia

Allmas
Web & RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:16 AM, <michael_regert@dell.com> wrote:

Staying with Flex. Not looking elsewhere.

Michael

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron G
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:15 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

Yes, we have also abandoned Flex in favor of ZKoss. Since we are already a Java shop, on the server side, it seemed logical to use a Java based framework on the client-side.

The thing I really like about ZK or ZKoss is that it has equivalent components to Flex. In fact, it actually has more components than Flex.

It implements an approach that I really like of separating the UI into appearance and behavior - much like the Spark components of Flex. Well, not exactly, but sort of. :) Here's what I mean. For each UI object, it has a client side (widget) and server side (component). I won't go into further detail, but it gives you a nice separation of concerns that you can avail yourself of. This feature also greatly insulates the rendered pages from x-browser compatibility issues.

Check it out for yourself at their site (zkoss.org).

Ron

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Sal" <sal.celli@...> wrote:
>
> hi,
> as i can sadly see from the message history bottom grid, many programmers are leaving flex.
> So this thread is to ask you all, if you have already found a valid alternative to flex for RIA development.
>