Bruce Eckels on Flex 2

原文

(這是podcast，要下載mp3回來聽，談到 flex2 的段落約在10 – 13 min)

Bruce Eckels 是何許人？

他是 “thinking in java” 與 thinking in C++ 的作者。

Thinking in java 一書對 java developer 的重要性與啟發性，大約就等同於 Actionscript Definitive Guide (ASDG) 對 flash coder一般，不知道多少人都是靠這本書在非常早期的時後自學並進入java的領域。

而這位 java 高人最近在一場interview中居然談到正快樂的學習 AS3 與 flex2，並對 flex2 提供的親和介面與簡易開發流程感到很滿意。

下面是 flexcoders 上擷錄的 trascription

Bruce Eckel: On the the other hand, I have been experimenting with Flash, this Flex 2, that

is still in Beta right now. But I have been developing with it and for Graphical User

Interface stuff, boy, and also Rich client stuff. I think, that is, may be, gonna be the thing that takes over from applets, AJAX and everything because Flash, you know, such a nice

experience for people. That’s what I have been looking at. And, you know, it runs across the

platform without you having to worry about. You know, when you dealing with JavaScript, and

the reason I abandoned the language was because I just don’t wanna have to say, what browser

might working under, what platform might running on, whatever it is, and then write my code

differently for each case. That’s just ludicrous? I don’t wanna spend my time that ways. So,

one of the cool things about Flex, you can write, I mean it’s got classes and all the stuff

and components and everything. The new Flex 2, you can actually, they built, this was very

clever they built on top of Eclipse, so their tool is built on top of Eclipse and for the

graphical-user-interfaces you can actually do the dragging-dropping of the flash components

and then write the program underneath. I have been pretty happy with..And I think, by the

time they actually release it they will have improved it even more..

Interviewer: Excellent, Excellent, Flash is pretty incredible, just platform in general, its

like the mega applet..with distribution (???)

Bruce Eckel: Exactly.

Interviewer: Are there any other dynamic languages that catch your eye right now, if so why?

In answer to this question, he mentioned that he is learning ActionScript 3 and MXML apart

from other languages.

I think, that is, may be, gonna be the thing that takes over from applets, AJAX and everything because of Flash

這篇文章透露了許多有趣的訊息，一個簡單的結論是：如果一個有經驗的前人，一個局外人，都已經看到 flex 的潛力，這一定代表些什麼…

嗯，例如這下子我可以說跟 Bruce Eckel 是同行了嗎 …

edit:
這是從 trackback source 擷錄來的一段話：

when I was readaing through “Thinking in Java” the fourth edition, Bruce Eckel, mentioned Flex and several times including in the chapter about alternatives to Swing,SWT for user interface development for Java projects

呵 這下子flex 可正式走進教科書成為可以認真考慮的GUI 開發工具了，太棒啦~