Why Flex for RIAs?
A colleague of mine recently emailed me asking if I knew of what amounts to an authorative Flex adoption whitepaper for RIA development for a client of his. My reply to him was:
They can check out the Adobe Flex Product Page, but I guess one authoritative text could be this O’Reilly booklet by Effective UI, even though it is a little dated: Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs, which the benefits of RIA development in Flex in a formal, documented fashion.
You can also refer them to this tongue-in-cheek expose of Top 10 Myths about Adobe Flex 2.0 by Adobe’s Ted Patrick, and this video overview of the technology by James Ward entitled Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications. If you want a great examination of real-world capabilities, check out James Ward’s Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmark application, which tests data transfer benchmarks for a variety of technologies.
Proof of Flex’s rising ubiquity can be had by going no further than Google Trends, or a recent news announcement that NATO now used Flex in its information delivery systems, or that Adobe has just been inducted into the Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors’ Choice Awards, as one of “the 12 companies that will matter the most to the intelligent enterprise in 2008.”
What more evidence do you need?
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on January 6th, 2008 at 12:35 am
It is kind of dated, but I think it captures the basics you’d need for this type of assessment. We do have an updated version for Flex 3 coming out soon….
on January 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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