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How Adobe can attract attention of Java developers to Flex 2

« H E Yakov Fain :: email
posted Thursday, 18 May 2006
Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the  pricing policy to bring Flex 2  to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they  should offer Eclipse-based Flex  Builder IDE for free. Java developers enjoy a variety of excellent free Java IDE such as Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper. Expensive IDEs like JBuilder or RAD are only  used by some filthy rich corporations . An excellent IntellijIDEA  IDE is not expensive, but  it has  very modest market share: Java developers are  spoiled by  good open source products.

Each time I talk to Java developers about Flex 2, the first question they ask, “Is it  free?” I answer that even without IDE you can use  a plain text editor for writing code, and  can create and run a small community-grade Web site for free using Flex command line compilers, Flex framework components and Flex Data Services on a single processor server... For existing Flex 1.5 developers Flex Builder environment is a big improvement , but  Java developers have seen it all and will think twice before reaching for their wallets.

I'm not in the position of giving Adobe advices, it's just a voice from the trenches.

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comments (2)


1. Oleg left...
Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:21 am

Yakov,

I see you are devoting a lot of attention to Flex2. I honestly think that it will not succeed as a replacement to Java GUI technology for a few non-technical reasons: 1) it is a proprietary technology (no open source enginuity). Honestly, I just witnessed Lepido project failure, not a big open source fan, but...; 2) Adobe is not known as a good development tool shop (as Borland or Microsoft); 3) have to learn a new language (vs. Java with a few millions fans); 4) yes, you have to pay for FlexBuilder (even in beta), that is a Big mistake of a greedy corp;

I think, JSF+Struts Shale has a better chance, although current Struts fork of Action1/Action2/Shale is horrible.

What do you think ?


2. glauco left...
Friday, 23 June 2006 9:57 pm

It's a good way to create a comunity and improve market share - developers will help to sell servers to big corporations... But developers don't invest money in this tools - we prefer the free (like a beer)