Can You Use Flex Communication Protocols for Mission-Critical Trading Applications?

Redmond Developer News has published an interview with Dr. James Gosling, creator of the Java language, where among other things, he talks about JavaFX and competing technologies. And he made a comment I can't agree with. Here it is: 'If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff - richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs - it really falls short.'

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#4	steve ballmer commented on 12 Jan 2008 PopFly+Silverlight makes Flash Obsolete! At the web 2.0 thingy we gave a preview of "Microsoft Online Composition Media Aggregation Layout Toolset", at the time I wasn't exactly 100% so I couldn't remember the name, so I just told them it was named PopFly. I don't know what made made say that name, but it has gone over well. So, PopFly! PopFly! PopFly! Adobe has been an annoyance to me for years, we have tried everything we could to dislodge them but they just keep cranking out good products. We even tried a few sabotage .dll's, but they always figure it out in no time at all and issue a patch. But I think we now have the right Combination, PopFly and Silverlight. Here's my plan: Those companies who will not adopt these technologies will be "downlisted" at MS. IE8 will require it's installation. The booby-trap .dll's will come out weekly. Adobe will be marginalized! It's a beautiful day at Microsoft!
#3	John Bailo commented on 8 Jan 2008 Gosling is absolutely right! I have thought the same thing myself. Flash does not make "rich applications", it is useful for very graphically rich applications. To me, a rich application is one where the whole space is available for interaction. Yeah, you could make the page one gigantic Flash "graphic", but that's not the point. I want all the elements at my disposal, from the lowliest HTML element, to the most magnificent control -- but I want absolute programmer direction of each thing. Java is good enough to do it all -- I think we'll see some real consolidation (and some real needed growth for Sun Microsystems (JAVA)) in the coming ten years.
#2	ByStander commented on 8 Jan 2008 > I've been doing some variation of AJAX for over 4 > years now and can say that aside from vector > graphics, AJAX can do anything that Flex can. An AJAX vs Flex dicussion at AJAXWorld would be cool, are you giving a session, Dave?
#1	DaveS commented on 7 Jan 2008 Surprise, surprise, Yakov disses on AJAX again. I've been doing some variation of AJAX for over 4 years now and can say that aside from vector graphics, AJAX can do anything that Flex can. Based on Yakov's prior comments regarding AJAX, he has very little experience with advanced JavaScript and DOM scripting.

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