flex3 vs. cs3

[sckiptCone]

Would someone care to discuss some of the advantages found in migrating from Flash CS3 to Flex 3 as a RIA development platform?   The goal of my team is to implement an as3-based solution for a streaming / state-based app that should be robust enough to handle a few thousand simultaneous connections.  What might Flex offer in terms of ease for backend implementation?  Also, does the addition of the LiveCycle Data Services component add any functionality that one can't live without?  (We're currently considering a Red5 implementation, but fear it may not be stable enough to handle our data workload.) 

Thank you for reading this, and I look forward to sharing in your wisdom.  - enjoy the day!

[..:: Mazhar Hasan ::..]

Hello! Flex 3 provides a far rich set of tools for creating/debugging and testing better RIAs, specially, the IDE of Flex3 is far better then the IDE of Flash CS3, plus Flex offers better integration with Data and extra methods like HTTPService that are not available in CS3, but the features i loved the most in Flex are:
- Easy to create custom components
- Awesome functionality with States, View stack
- Browser's history management
- Connectivity with Server side data
- Ease of Integration with LiveCycle/BlazeDS
- Robust application development
- Support for unit,stress testing
- support for testing memory usage at object level

Thats why i have been turned to flex since flex 2 and have stopped making projects in Flash and using Flash only for creating skins for my flex applications.

[zillraja]

Flash is better in many things compared to flex.
In flash we can do any kind of 2d animation and  designs how we wanted
In flex all are default effects,we can only use them only,we can make good effects in flash however we want,slideshow etc,,and can create own skins,Game designing etc,
whatever u do in flash is not possible to do in flex.

[thomas29]

Flash is better in many things compared to flex.
In flash we can do any kind of 2d animation and  designs how we wanted
In flex all are default effects,we can only use them only,we can make good effects in flash however we want,slideshow etc,,and can create own skins,Game designing etc,
whatever u do in flash is not possible to do in flex.

yep.. I do agree with you.

However, Flash was originally developed and used as medium to integrate animation, sound and video. Even, it’s intended for online presentation with some interactivity.

And, Flex would be a better choice because Flex development brings a new level of user interface to your website with rich, interactive web applications. Flex gives you the best applications by using graphics, animation and audio done in flash that can be viewed in any browser with the flash player installed.

Flex is the approaching technology for creating responsive, dynamic and visually prominent user-interfaces and more standard than Flash to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). So first of all we need to decide our what kind of project it will be and choose technology as per your project requirements.