Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications. The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the move, which will start when it releases a beta of the next version of Flex, code-named Moxie, in June.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Geeze, does *anyone* read the article?
Flex is the SDK, the new IDE will be based around Eclipse, the data side of it will eventually be based on opensource technologies.
Why do people *assume* and IDE has yet to be written when it is clearly writtein the article what the future intentions are?
The company said it will open-source the Flex software development kit, which includes a compiler and libraries designed to speed up development. It plans to continue to sell Flex Builder, an Eclipse-based development tool, and Flex Data Services, server software for accessing corporate databases.
IDE is done by Eclipse, Dataservices closed source, but possibility of having it written by the opensorce community, and SDK which includes compiler etc. So really, the only missing link is dataservices.
Member since:2006-01-25
Geeze, does *anyone* read the article?
Obviously not...
Flex is the SDK, the new IDE will be based around Eclipse, the data side of it will eventually be based on opensource technologies.
There is no "new" IDE.. The IDE for Flex is a plugin for Eclipse *now*. It already exists. That isnt changing - nor is the fact that the IDE costs $$$. The SDK is the only thing that is going to be opensourced, and it doesnt include the Eclipse plugin or the Data Services.
Why do people *assume* and IDE has yet to be written when it is clearly writtein the article what the future intentions are?
No one "assumed" anything. The post you so ineptly replied to was just pointing out that the opensource community would likely want to build their own IDE since Adobe's will remain commercial.
From the article:
...It plans to continue to sell Flex Builder, an Eclipse-based development tool, and Flex Data Services, server software for accessing corporate databases.
You misread the article and decided to post a flame based on your incorrect understanding of it. Congratulations!
Member since:
2006-02-06
... at least it is a step in the right (ok, this depends on the observer's feelings about open source, let's not flame about this piece) direction.
I wouldn't expect much more than what they're giving now. At least not for starters. If the tool is really widely used, it wouldn't take long before Open Source developers wrote a new IDE to use it, and that could teach Adobe about how useful a better relationship with the open source community could be.
Let's all just wait and see how that goes.