Experimenting with Flex

I have been experimenting with flex.
It is really cool that you can quickly create an application running on a flash player with Flex builder. A Flex application can be run on any platform. A Flex application simply needs only a browser with a flash player plugin.

The idea of creating an application and running on every platform of flex is similar to Java application running on a Java virtual machine. Well, Java is not actually 100% run everywhere.

The application and its layout can be represented by xml script stored in the mxml file. Additional logic such as event handling can be created using action script.
Following is my first flex application example: http://nguan.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html.

Flex technology is similar to Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight. The new generation interface application created by .NET framework 3.5 can be created using an xml file called xaml similar to flex. For the new .NET, it would be really cool if you have Windows application and you can instanly port it into a web (not 100%).

Trying Adobe Express

It’s quite interesting that Adobe has created a web application for image editing called Adobe Express using Flash and Flex.

Microsoft has launched Silverlight.

I am wondering who will win between Flash/Flex and Silverlight.