Flex Vs Ajax - Which one is better and why?
Ajax and Flex are both amazingly good technologies. Programmers often argue about one technology being superior to the other. Both have their pros and cons.
I tried to compile a list of websites that talk about likes and dislikes for the two technologies, probably the best resources I could find on the internet on this.
- Adobe's Flex platform now better positioned against AJAX
"Adobe says Flex offers capabilities not available in AJAX, such as powerful data management capabilities and rich media and graphics"- read - Top Ten Reasons AJAX is Here to Stay
"It's an understatement to say that AJAX is hot right now. There's a lot of hype; no one can argue that. It went from a geek buzzword in February to being profiled on CNN in October" - read - Flex and Ajax better together James Ward, Technical Evangelist for flex speaks on how they are better together (audio/breeze presentaion) - link (recommended)
- Weighing the alternatives
"Why is Ajax getting so much attention when there are so many alternative technologies? Something about Ajax raises it above the rest" - read (recommended) - 10 Reasons We Love Flex 2
"We all know that AJAX gets all the buzz these days. We do plenty of AJAX work here at Arc90. But we’re also loving Flex 2. Here are 10 reasons why" - read - Flex - Why Bother ?
"The reason I never used flash heavily in the front end is because I felt: 1) User not as likely to support it vs JS/HTML/CSS 2) Takes a little longer to load 3) Right click options (open new window, open new tab) are replaced by ?about flash?" - read - Flex vs Ajax (Hint: Ajax is Better!) Pete Cashmore makes precise comparison of the two technologies - read (recommended)
- Flex vs. AJAX
"I’ll give you a list of what I think are important strengths and weaknesses of the two, but keep in mind, I am happily on the fence when it comes to deciding between them, and I’ll tell you why in a bit." - read
5 comments:
Just a few days ago I wrote a comparison between Flex 2 and Google Web Toolkit,GWT vs Flex 2. IMHO, there is no clear winner yet. In the end which technology you end up using depends on the customer's requirements...
open source development still needs to go a long way. take simple validation, specifically date validation with pull down calendar etc are still complicated using ajax. flex makes it so much easier when it comes to validation..
Aaargh! Flex == gnu 'fast lex' not web developement tech! Curse you Adobe...
You might also want to take a look at Laszlo http://www.openlaszlo.org/ which gives you all the benefits of Flex + also does DHTML/AJAX without changing a bit of your code!
Laszlo is definitely another technology in the competetition with ajax and flex.
A 25 line code renders a flash for drag and drop. Pretty easy to learn as well. Check out some kool demos here:
http://www.openlaszlo.org/demos#LZpiX
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