I didn't RTFA but they should have added in job listing for "Flex" since it's a Flash technology, but many listings for Flex developers don't mention "Flash". The difference would have been even more striking, I bet.
Some software ages better than others. Dreamweaver, for instance, sucks in every version, but sucks consistently. Therefore, "teaching" on 2000 is not much different than the latest whizz-bang version.
Photoshop is good in every version, but not much changes between them.
Flash, however, is still young-ish (particularly ActionScript), and there are major differences between AS version 2 and the latest, version 3.
I can't speak for the OS packages you mention, having not used them.
-Purr
AJAX is free, easy to use, and people are using it now.
Flex is free (the compiler), ease of use is a subjective measure, and people are using Flex now too.
That Adobe flex uses coldfusion, we stopped using that and migrated to Tomcat.
Negative. Flex has no reliance on ColdFusion. There are numerous ways for Flex (front-end) to talk to the server (back-end), ColdFusion being ONE of the ways. It can also talk to Java via Tomcat. For that matter, I can run ColdFusion ON Tomcat.
Note that I've never written a Flex app - I state facts, not biases.
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I didn't RTFA but they should have added in job listing for "Flex" since it's a Flash technology, but many listings for Flex developers don't mention "Flash". The difference would have been even more striking, I bet.
Some software ages better than others. Dreamweaver, for instance, sucks in every version, but sucks consistently. Therefore, "teaching" on 2000 is not much different than the latest whizz-bang version. Photoshop is good in every version, but not much changes between them. Flash, however, is still young-ish (particularly ActionScript), and there are major differences between AS version 2 and the latest, version 3. I can't speak for the OS packages you mention, having not used them. -Purr
Flex is free (the compiler), ease of use is a subjective measure, and people are using Flex now too.
Negative. Flex has no reliance on ColdFusion. There are numerous ways for Flex (front-end) to talk to the server (back-end), ColdFusion being ONE of the ways. It can also talk to Java via Tomcat. For that matter, I can run ColdFusion ON Tomcat.
Note that I've never written a Flex app - I state facts, not biases.