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I finally finished my diploma thesis I mentioned before about performance comparisons between Flex/Flash, JavaFX, Silverlight and various JavaScript engines. Why this analysis? During an internship at IBM Germany back in 2009, I had to develop a Visualizer based on Flex that heavily relied on its charting library API. Even on strong machines, it was […]
Around two years ago, I wrote a little article about OpenLaszlo, a promising RIA framework, for richability.com in which I compared it to Adobe’s Flex platform. Since a lot of time has passed and many things changed since then, I think it’s time for an updated sight on this technology. Back in the days when […]
I am currently writing my diploma thesis at the University of Ulm on performance issues regarding Rich Internet Application technologies like Adobe Flash/Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight and various JavaScript solutions. (Update: It’s done! :-) ) I started back in December when I first noticed that Adobe’s Flash Player seriously has some performance issues. It always was […]
Note: This is not a posting about introducing Gordon. This article describes a concept of automatically porting the Flash Player to JavaScript in a generic way, based on the idea of Gordon and Adobe Alchemy. You might know Gordon, an experimental attempt of implementing the Flash Player runtime environment, completely written in JavaScript (by Tobey […]
There has a lot of discussion going around in the past days about the big Adobe vs. Apple issues. All because of Flash. Steve doesn’t like Flash. He says, it’s buggy, slow and unstable, which I, as a Flash developer, must agree to partially. But this is only one side of the medal. While the […]
I often read in Flex-tutorials and -books, that it’s difficult to completely implement a project using the concept of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. It is being said that the fact that MXML files inherit both, application logic (through ActionScript) and the declarative way of building graphic user-interfaces using MXML syntax, makes it almost impossible to […]
Stop! Before you send me a letter-bomb, read this article first :-) Update: After hearing about some misunderstandings regarding this post, I want to make sure, that the title “Flash is better than Java” is of course targeted at front-ent software engineering, not backend. Although it’s obvious that noone would ever try to build a […]
In case you have ever been asking yourself how to call yourself if you develop Flash-based applications, here is the ultimate guide: If you use the Eclipse-based IDE called “Flash Builder” in order to create Rich Internet Applications using AS3 and MXML, you are a Flash Developer (with Focus on Flex). If you use the […]
I think, I finally found an answer to the question, why one should use Flash instead of HTML5: Binary sockets Newer Flash Player versions allow developers to open binary socket connections, which is not possible using pure HTML5/JavaScript in the browser (HTML5 only supports websockets, which are different). Thus, for example, it would not be […]
The golem.de guys had an interview with Adrian Ludwig, Flash Group Manager at Adobe Systems, and asked him what’s the benefit of the Flash platform compared to HTML5 and if Flash would ever come to the iPhone. The answers are quite interesting. After watching the video, I gotta say that Ludwig didn’t really have an […]