andrew ennamorato wrote:2 questions for the price of one.
Looks like the book just covers Adobe's BlazeDS. Recently saw a demo at SpringOne2GX of integrating Flex with Spring BlazeDS and it was a pretty slick solution/demonstration. Just wondering if you're familiar with the BlazeDS "version" that Spring offers and what differs between the two.
Also, for someone who is familiar with javascript development, how tough is the transition to Flex?
Vyas Sanzgiri wrote:What is the IDE support for Flex? I have heard about Flex Builder. Is there any other open source free IDE support available or in the pipeline?
Satchit Talla wrote:Dan,
Thanks for your response. Just to make sure, I wasn't using skinnableContainers as skinParts. They are just custom components(skinnableComponents). But, I do get your suggestion of the way I should be accessing. So, let us say if I change my container that contains other custom components to SkinnableComponent(using composite component), I should be able to access the custom components from a composite component by using the "bindable" for the properties? Please let me know if that would work in my situation.
Good luck with the new book. Still waiting for it to come out so I can buy. Has been a long wait!
Joel Hooks wrote:
Sonny Gill wrote:Like Joel, I also use IDEA for Flex 3 development. The new 9.0.* versions have very good support for Flex development.
The only thing it lacks is a visual layout designer. For all other tasks, the IDEA support for code completion, refactoring etc. is much better than Flex Builder.
Our team has Flex Builder licenses, but the only time I use it is when I need to do some trial-and-error visual design of a Flex screen.
Honestly I haven't actively used the Design Mode in a long time and don't really miss it. There was some speculation that it might be removed in the next cycle in favor of Flash Catalyst. It would certainly make it easier for Adobe to update the product. I think it is a bit of a nightmare :>
IDEA has quirks, but MAN it compiles fast and I love the FlexUnit integration.
Rahul Juneja wrote:Dan,
Appreciate it.
I have already looked at this example, but i was wondering if there is something without the Blaze stuff as i am not very inclined on getting in Blaze.
Thanks,
Rahul
Jahnvi Pathak wrote:Thank you all for reply and suggestions.
When I think about Flex I see mostly Cairngorm or PureMVC as they are used extensively and because they have more presence on the web. But I will surely now look into the other frameworks also.
- Jahnvi
Paul Sturrock wrote:Thanks Dan. We have just started to look at FlexUnit 4, after slogging away with limited success with the previous versions. It does look like an improvement - we are very familiar with JUnit 4, which we use to test all the Java parts of our applications. One thing we are keen to get is a way of testers being able to write automated tests (as they can with a tool like Selenium). Do you know of anything out there that would let us do this for Flex? We've had a brief look at Flex Selenium, which uses ExternalInterface to hook Selenese in to the Flex application but there seems to be a few too many hooks (i.e. a bit brittle) for our liking.
Paul Sturrock wrote:
Flex heavily depends on Flash player by adobe so if in a case it is missing the flex files wont run.
Flash won't run without it.
Also the flash files in webpages were used minimmaly as in some cases it took much time to execute wont this happen in the case of Flex also.
Yes. You can construct a Flash (or Flex) application that is in modules and can be loaded on demand. You can also keep static resources (images etc.) external. So you can avoid giving the use a single big file to download, if you write it to do so.