August 3, 2005
Mike Chambers has clarified that
Zorn will let you "develop and deploy applications based on MXML, ActionScript and the next generation of the Flex framework (all without requiring a server)".
He also notes that "there will also be new enterprise-class features of the Flex framework that require the Flex server".
This has already generated quite a bit of excitement in the community - and rightly so, as this expands the Flash Platform ecosystem both to incorporate new developers as well as bringing more options to existing developers!
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OpenLaszlo 3 provides server-less deployement too. And it's out since a couple of months.
Posted By wolf2k5 / Posted At
8/4/05 6:48 AM
Laszlo has a very limited programming model in comparison to Flex.
Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted At
8/4/05 10:10 AM
Sean is right. We just reviewed a number of options for delivering RIA content. We looked at a number of solutions including:
ColdFusion + Flash FLEX OpenLazlo Java/SPRING + Flash Java/STRUTS + Flash
We all did research, all of which pointed to:
ColdFusion/AJAX or Flash - Good choice with lots of reasons why.
Flex - Good choice with lots of reasons but likely too pricey.
OpenLazlo - Old version of Flash, poor model, requires annoying tweaking for high loads. Wait till next version.
Java/SPRING + Flash - Good choice, but is the cost of the time for programming core elements less than purchasing Flex?
Java/STRUTS + Flash - Bleah. After toying with SPRING and Fusebox 4, why suffer through STRUTS again?
Posted By Daniel Greenfeld / Posted At
8/5/05 9:41 PM
OpenLaszlo 3 produces Flash 6 and 7 output. I am not sure what you mean with poor model.
Posted By wolk2k5 / Posted At
8/6/05 11:41 AM
Wolf2k5, you obviously haven't tried to do much programming of RIAs! Laszlo doesn't have much in the way of a client-side scripting language - the Laszlo XML format is very limited. Flex on the other hand provides a sophisticated XML-based declarative model for both layouts and data models as well as a full ActionScript programming model for computation. There's really no comparison. Use them both and you'll soon see the difference...
Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted At
8/7/05 11:33 PM
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