Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Macromedia Flex as an interface to web apps?. We've been taking a look at Macromedia Flex, and it seems like a pretty cool technology. It manages data modelling, UI generation, and presentation of an interactive application (as a .swf) to the user. Some cool potential there. The data modelling stuff feels a lot like WebObjects EOF. The UI description stuff (MXML) is much like Mozilla XUL. The end product looks like a plain old Flash .swf, that can be presented anywhere. Lots of marketing fluff on the Flex website (considering the product isn't even released yet, that's understandable). Some of the fluff is a little misleading, suggesting that... [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog]
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