Re: Flex & RPG

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Milligan skrev:
> We ultimately abandoned these rendering technologies, despite having sunk
> about 2 million pounds into them, because we realized that we would have to
> compete with Visual Studio, Oracle, MyEclipse and all the other IDE editors.
> But our customers still have the problem of screen maintenance. Not because
> of the quality of code we generate, its clean its OO its event driven and
> looks like code someone who was very well trained in modern languages would
> do. It's just that the technologies of web 2.0 are not productive.
>   
This is a very interesting conclusion.  It is a large investment to 
write off, but I expect that the experience gained in writing these now 
abandoned projects, allowed you to avoid a lot of trying things out when 
doing the Flex implementation.  You basically knew what what was required?

>  
> Flex changes all this. In a few simple lines you can define incredibly rich,
> good looking and robust UI's. Also SAP just rewrote their entire UI layer in
> Flex. That prompted us to look at it much more closely and we realized it
> was the answer to our prayers. Hence my question, if anyone is still reading
>
>   
We have a long proven policy of "we only do Java", but statements like 
the above makes me wonder if this might be _too_ conservative an attitude.

If you want to share, I'd appreciate hearing more about your experiences.