Andre :

thanks for updates :)

my pleasure, thanks for reading:)

Just to be very clear, we have upcoming builds of Gumbo but the final release is in 2009. So this is still early stage :-)

Now I feel like all the Flex 3 books are already out of date. Most of them aren't even available yet.

Hi,

This demo is pretty neat. This new way of doing things looks interesting but my experience tells me that this king of thing only works in demos and is never designed for real life application. I feel like you are not quite sure what is Flex and who should use it. For me, Flex is a developer tool. So, when I hear "... without writing a single line a code" in the presentation, I feel you kind of miss the spot. Graphists want to do skinning and not write a line of code. Programmers want the exact opposite.

Next demo, show me a Flex 4 that can do more data collection types. I want to do more data manipulation. I want true object programming with polymorphism, private constructors, method overrides, and thread synchronization (I know that AS is not threaded but the Flash player is and it creates tons of racing conditions).

What is interesting, is that originally Flex was designed for enterprise web applications, and was a direct contrast to Flash. It seems now, that it is becoming more "Flash" like.

I am not so sure that those particular skin design features are all that important to enterprise business end users. Most of what is being done here can be done in Flash.

I tend to agree with the previous post that perhaps Flex is really being redefined, and not particularly in a way in which it was originally marketed.

While they are nice, I sincerely hope that these highlights are not the major emphasis of Flex 4. Flex was designed with application development in mind, and I hope that it remains as such.

Disappointed to see this, was hoping to see a lot more enterprise class data object handling.

A lot of us are looking for more data handling, more data on cross domain stuff, certificate management etc. this feels more like a really cool toy.

Praying that this not all ....

-Vivek

For the poster who are disappointed, let me remind you about all the enterprise work flow and development pipeline adoption taking place. We are far from flash-like! We have unit testing cvs,svn, maven integration, web service consumption, remoting , binary data access, um should I keep going?? Another thing to keep in minid is that no matter how bad ass you app performs, no one will buy it if UI issues intimidate, confuse or somehow give them a negative view of the apps overall usability. We can argue this to the gr4ave just keep in mind .. BALANCE a little help for our design teams to integrate better is a good thing. I think this is BAD ASS! This will be a big boinus for alot of projects. Good Job Adobe!

Hi Andre Charland,
Nice post. It is useful for me. I don't know about others.
Thanks for posting