Support Forums: Message List - Why I might not want to use Flex - A second opinion http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sun, 19 May 2013 05:03:22 -0400 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 The beauty of technologies such as Flex or Silverlight is that they are server neutral.

JavaFX? I am not sure. Uh, why not? Java can talk to any server type. JavaFX is Java.]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:58:21 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:58:21 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:58:21 -0500 Dec 2, 2008 Mark N 0 Re: Flex & POJO with BlazeDS http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:52:29 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:52:29 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:52:29 -0500 Dec 2, 2008 Igor Polevoy 0 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
Then you would know VB4/5/6 once dominated on the client.

If you discount C/C++. And DBase. And Delphi. And Powerbuilder.


Hey, this is the possible scenario we are...]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:29:06 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:29:06 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:29:06 -0500 Dec 2, 2008 George Jiang 1 agree on the need for non-debug stacktraces http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
exception handling. For a Java-guy like me, the exception handling ‘not perfect’. When an Error is caught, all you can know about it is .. the error code. Isn’t this too 1990? Stacktraces you can somehow...]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:12:09 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:12:09 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:12:09 -0500 Dec 2, 2008 Marko Milicevic 0 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
Then you would know VB4/5/6 once dominated on the client.

If you discount C/C++. And DBase. And Delphi. And Powerbuilder.


Hey, this is the possible scenario we are talking...]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:00:50 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:00:50 -0500 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:00:50 -0500 Dec 2, 2008 Mark N 2 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
Then you would know VB4/5/6 once dominated on the client.

If you discount C/C++. And DBase. And Delphi. And Powerbuilder.
...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:33:43 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:33:43 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:33:43 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 George Jiang 3 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 Then you would know VB4/5/6 once dominated on the client....]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:38:37 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:38:37 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:38:37 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Mark N 4 Re: Large applications? SilverLight? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014

IMHO, if M$ supports the full .NET (exccpt Winform/WPF, of course) on Unix/Linux, .NET would have dominated a few years ago.

We will never know. But IMHO and IMHE, they would not have. Been there, done...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:03 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:03 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:03 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 George Jiang 5 Re: Why I might not want to use Flex - A second opinion http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 multithreading: wrong assumption - even though developers happen to make buggy software, this is not a valid reason to cut some 'risky' features off. Because there are developers who can do good things with threads, if they had...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:32:26 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:32:26 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:32:26 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 DSizzz 0 Re: OpenLaszlo http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
I was interested in OpenLazslo about a year ago and took a short look ... I thought I saw that they had no IDE for GUI building and moved on. Can you tell us if that community has come up with an IDE comparable to the FlexBuilder...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:13:15 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:13:15 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:13:15 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Ethan Allen 0 Re: Large Applications? 64 MB tomcat http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 It would be interesting to see what you have done. Most of what I do involves complex models so for those things Hibernate is the better choice. But if i need to stream xml directly from the db ...
...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:23:06 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:23:06 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:23:06 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Sunil n Abinash - 0 Re: JavaFX / Flex / Silverlight? .... i'd rather go with AJAX http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 but so can you with MS word and marco's, but you do not build your core business on the use of MS Word and marco's. Yeah. You gotta use Excel and macros. :) (you'd be surprised how many actually do this.)]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:10:40 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:10:40 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:10:40 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Mark N 0 Re: Large Applications? 64 MB tomcat http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014
... All this makes our tomcat server run under 64 MB RAM ...
Are you using Hibernate/JPA?


No we don't. Started with iBatis, then threw it out as it was too painful to code in it....]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:07:36 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:07:36 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:07:36 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Mark N 1 Re: Flex & POJO with BlazeDS http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:34:13 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:34:13 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:34:13 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Guneet Uppal 0 OpenLaszlo http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=52014 I was interested in OpenLazslo about a year ago and took a short look ... I thought I saw that they had no IDE for GUI building and moved on. Can you tell us if that community has come up with an IDE comparable to the FlexBuilder (comparable...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:57:26 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:57:26 -0500 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:57:26 -0500 Dec 1, 2008 Sandro Chierici 1