Cant you just use JSON to comunicate at certain level with
FLEX?
And think Flex is open source, or there are plans:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source
They should open the eclipse based builder, so they can
attract
more
developers.
Mario
On Sep 6, 6:37 am, "Arnar Birgisson"
<arna... gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Dr Mephesto <dnh...googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > After readinghttp://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208528
> > , I was really enthusiastic about using Adobe Flex
as a front end for
> > Cherrypy. It seems that you get a great
development environment for
> > creating the frontend, and a nicer way to do
effects and data
> > processing than ajax. Although proprietry, the
flex sdk is free, and
> > has the benefit of using AMF3 as the transport
protocol (see
> >http://www.jamesw
ard.org/census/for an example, and relative speeds
> > of json, xml amf protocols).
>
> > And now it seems that django is getting Flex
support:
> >http://djangoamf.sourceforge.jp/index.php?UserManual_en.
But it seems
> > to me that django is trying to squeeze too many
things into their
> > framework. I think that just cherrypy, together
with sqlalchemy and
> > flex would be the ultimate in rapid wed
application development; a
> > very flexible and professional looking frontend
thats easier to
> > develop that javascript, and a very very flexible
all python backend.
> > All it needs is a simple library to wrap up the
whole amf3 thing for
> > cherrypy...
>
> Yes, I have looked somewhat into this. Flex is a nice
platform for GUI
> building and they provide excellent tools
(FlexBuilder). Only drawback
> is that it's closed-source and proprietary, but if that
doesn't bother
> you - it's a great platform I think.
>
> Using it against CherryPy rather than Django makes
perfect sense if
> you aren't using Django already. What you need is an
AMF encoder
> (similar to JSON encoders that we have already).
>
> For Python, this exists in several places in
"partial"
> implementations. DjangoAMF is one, Flashtickle [1] by
Bob Ippolito is
> another.
>
> A third one is included in rtmpy [2], which is a
project I'm involved
> in and is meant to implement the RTMP protocol and
related concepts in
> Twisted. Unfortunately I have lacked time to work on it
and there are
> few Python developers around who show interest :(
>
> Flashtickle is outdated and Bob has issued that he will
not maintain
> it. The DjangoAMF version I disliked for various
reasons (YMMV).
>
> One of the first things we need to do in RTMPy is AMF
support, and AMF
> decoding is mostly complete. Encoding however... not so
much 
You
> can have a look at it, the general idea is there and
it's heavily
> based on SabrAMF, an AMF implementation for PHP.
>
> If you're interested, the rtmpy project needs someone
to write up the
> AMF encoder. A complete AMF codec would be exactly what
you need to
> communicate between Flex and CherryPy.
>
> [1]http://undefi
ned.org/python/#flashticle
> [2]http://dev.collab.com/rt
mpy/
>
> Arnar
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