Re: Adobe's RIA Technologies

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Mike Eovino
> Wow.  We haven't come anywhere close to 40 MB, but then
> we've just been playing around.  Good to know.

That dilemma drove me to Adobe's web site again last night.  And it turns out that Flex does offer a couple components, a Module Manager and Module Loader, for incrementally loading, referencing, and unloading modules during the lifecycle of the application.  You can use that approach instead of packaging the whole enchilada into just one .SWF file which might take many minutes to load, in the case of a large application.

Actually the developer's guide encourages the use of the Module Loader and Module Manager to build you're own portal from which you launch other applications.  That underscores just how desktop centric the architecture is.  More thick client-server or stand-alone settings.

Nathan.