Adobe is Open Sourcing Flex!
James Ward
Here is the full Press Release:
http://www.flex.org/go/openflexpress
and FAQ:
http://www.flex.org/go/openfaq
And my blog:
http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2007/04/25/open-source-flex-top-10-re
asons-to-rejoice/
This is really exciting for me since I've wanted to see this happen for
almost three years. Please join the flex-open-source Google Group and
let us know what you think about the announcement. And hopefully I will
see many of you at the JavaOne Java Posse BOF in less than 2 weeks!
-James
Joshua Marinacci
Casper Bang
/Casper
Brian Ehmann
Charting? (gosh, java has truly spoiled me)
Seriously though, this is awesome news.
- Brian
carljmosca
building)? I do not. Although I seem to see Bruce Eckel's face in an
add for it every time I turn around so I have assumed this is some
pretty good stuff.
I was curious last night and started to play with some of the demos.
I googled for Flex/CRUD/demo (hoping to find something like what I
might write) and found the restaurant finder app.
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/restaurant/finder.html
I ran it three times and my browser terminated unexpectedly the first
two as I was scrolling through some records. I am running FC5 and
Firefox 1.5.0.10 on the machine I used to do the testing. I was able
to add a record/review the third time.
I tried it on another (Linux) box which has an earlier version (7) of
the flash player installed (wondering how easy it would be to get
going assuming I was clueless which I may well be). The "app" does
not tell me to go get anything. It just paints a nice gray rectangle
on a green background and (eventually and w/o any type of progress
indicator) tells me it's "done" (I guess done "loading"). In
general, w/o some sort of progress indicator, I leave web sites that
take as long to load. If I move my cursor all around the rectangle I
eventually find an area where it turns into the hand/outstretched
finger icon. Clicking then takes me to the Adobe Flash Player
download center. Nice, but I am not sure the average user would know
why they are there (but then the average user still runs some other
OS, I hear, where you can always find the latest versions of Flash and
Spyware.)
Not necessarily a fair or complete "test" but they are my first
impressions of Flex.
James Ward
for us. Sorry the experience was as seamless as usual.
Flex 2 apps require Flash 9. The grey box you are seeing is due to a
Flex bug that was fixed a while back. What should be happening (on
Linux) is that if you don't have Flash 9 it will tell you that you need
it. On windows and mac it's a one-click auto-upgrade to Flash 9.
As for the crash, you may have an older version of Flash 9 for Linux. I
have 9.0.31 (latest Linux version). Go here to make sure you have that
version:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
With 9.0.31 on Ubuntu I don't get any crashes.
If you want to experiment with more CRUD apps, check out the Flex Test
Drive:
http://www.adobe.com/go/flextestdrive
Feel free to email directly if you have other questions/problems.
-James
Jess Holle
As I see it the difference is that Flash largely limits really bad experiences to Linux whereas the worst Java Plug-In experiences are mainly on Windows. The Java Plug-In thus succeeded in producing a much larger black-eye for itself by screwing up most on the most used platform.
--
Jess Holle
carljmosca
and do not have access to the same hardware which both need the Flash
9 updates.
I will get them both updated and try as you suggest below.
I look forward to some nice results; that is up to everything positive
I have read. :)
Carl