I’ve been playing quite a lot with Flex these years. Since I use flash actionscript for more than 10 years now, I’ve seen Flex - from its beinning - as an immediate and coherent future for Flash Apps.
By the way, Flex’s capabilities and power always appealed me, but I was missing something.
Within Flash, retrieving data has always been boring. XML took days to parse, AMF was sometimes soooooo long you could serialize data by hand, and loadVars wasn’t an option. I was missing (x)HTML convenience for information presentation.
Then came Drupal, that I first used to build a collaborative-news-multi-user-blog/encyclopedia/knowledge management website wich isn’t online anymore (www.em-ma.org). I was so disgusted in this project to be abducted that I did not open Dupal’s interface until… I thought about it as a good backoffice for Flex Apps…
I know I’m not the first to think about it, and Google will tell you all you need to know about this subject. But as soon as you know the power of Drupal’s XML generators and play with Taxonomy and nodes, I’m sure you’ll have the same idea.
there’s a good article to start head first
and start dividing your dev times by 3 on Flex projects ^_^
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