I am not saying and i think nobody have ever said that building large and scalable enterprise applications is easy... not in Flex, not in Java, not in anything... if you don't have good architecture, good design... you are fried!!!!
Use Cairgorm and you are dead, its ok for small applications but not for large applications.
To be successful you have to have custom components that minimize the amount of developers code and mistakes at the same time, design some guidelines for developers to avoid memory leaks, "design is the key"... Flex is not perfect, actually i think is waaay too FLEXible, and a lot of developers are just lazy to do things right, they just say "lets keep listeners everywhere", "lets keep data objects in every application component", "drag and drop is the best!!!"...etc..etc... you can have the same problems in Java. But if you want to build a RIA, there is nothing like it!!!
I am sure they have their problems, but nothing that you cant prevent from happening if you know what you are doing.
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Silverlight?... give me a break!!!
I am not saying and i think nobody have ever said that building large and scalable enterprise applications is easy... not in Flex, not in Java, not in anything... if you don't have good architecture, good design... you are fried!!!!
Use Cairgorm and you are dead, its ok for small applications but not for large applications.
To be successful you have to have custom components that minimize the amount of developers code and mistakes at the same time, design some guidelines for developers to avoid memory leaks, "design is the key"... Flex is not perfect, actually i think is waaay too FLEXible, and a lot of developers are just lazy to do things right, they just say "lets keep listeners everywhere", "lets keep data objects in every application component", "drag and drop is the best!!!"...etc..etc... you can have the same problems in Java. But if you want to build a RIA, there is nothing like it!!!
I am sure they have their problems, but nothing that you cant prevent from happening if you know what you are doing.
These are my two cents...;-)