The combination of Flex and The Cloud is quickly becoming an IT and paradigm changing combination. Here are a number of recently published resources for learning more about this :
- An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0?
- I’ll be speaking on Thursday, February 18 2010 at the Denver Flex User Group about Flex and The Cloud
- The recording of a webinar I co-hosted on the new Salesforce.com Cloud platform for developers has been posted
- Jeff Douglas has posted a video walk through showing how to use the new Salesforce.com Flash Builder 4 extension for Flex + Cloud apps
Exciting stuff! Let me know what you think!
3 Comments
This definitely can be a new paradigm and has a lot of promise.
Thanks for the post.
Hi James,
I just read your article about Flex and Cloud. The terms are a little different but they are saying the same thing. If I understand your article correctly, there is no support for running Flex application in Cloud, correct? Most of the Flex application are on-premise and they are accessing Service or Infrastructure Cloud, correct? Is SalesForce.com working with Adobe to support Flex application in cloud?
Thanks,
Lee
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the feedback. Flex apps run client-side so there is technically no way to run a Flex app on the Cloud. You can put the Flex app assets (the SWF, etc) on the Cloud so that they can be downloaded to the client from the cloud. All of the cloud services I identified in the article support this.
-James