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Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE for free. Java developers enjoy a variety of excellent free Java IDE such as Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper. Expensive IDEs like JBuilder or RAD are only used by some filthy rich corporations. An excellent IntellijIDEA IDE is not expensive, but it has very modest market share: Java developers are spoiled by good open source products.Each time I talk to Java developers about Flex 2, the first question they ask, “Is it free?” I answer that even without IDE you can use a plain text editor for writing code, and can create and run a small community-grade Web site for free using Flex command line compilers, Flex framework components and Flex Data Services on a single processor server... For existing Flex 1.5 developers Flex Builder environment is a big improvement , but Java developers have seen it all and will think twice before reaching for their wallets.
I'm not in the position of giving Adobe advice, it's just a voice from the trenches.
posted Thursday, 18 May 2006
tags: ria adobe flex 2
Published May 18, 2006 Reads 40,034
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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
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JabbyPanda 05/19/06 05:44:10 AM EDT | |||
We are already using FDT commercial plugin to Eclipse to facilitate development in Action Script 2 for Flex 1.5. FDT is currently priced significantly cheaper then Flex Builder 2. Thus, may be the community will develop an IDE for Flex 2, which be have a nice set of features comparable with Flex Builder 2. |
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SYS-CON Italy News Desk 05/18/06 12:28:35 PM EDT | |||
Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE for free. |
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SYS-CON India News Desk 05/18/06 12:00:54 PM EDT | |||
Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE for free. |
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JDJ News Desk 05/18/06 11:15:34 AM EDT | |||
Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE for free. |
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