One of the main efforts and occupation for our team during the last months was motivated by the requirement of migrating the Plis Web main application to the new Flex 4 SDK. It’s been a hard and difficult task as the starting point was a standard FLEX 3 application, and everyone knows that FLEX 4 included lots of changes and different approaches for almost every language aspect. It’s been hard but we’ve completed now the 90% of the process and we’re extremely happy with the results. We believe that we will be releasing the full new version during the next week or weeks.
It’s been a hard challenge for the team to adapt the full application to the new way FLEX 4 works and the spark architecture, but it’s been the right choice. One could think that the process of “upgrading” a classic FLEX 3 Application to FLEX 4 requires to simply modify all the component tags, but the real scenario causes lots of headaches. In some cases the new spark alternatives work completely different than the mx ones, and this forces the engineer to rebuild big parts of the project from scratch. The changes Adobe introduced on Flex 4 give great freedom for the developers and designers to create Flex applications with an impressive look and an extraordinary visual flexibility, by separating the visual from the functional logic on all the language components. This leads to smaller file sizes and a better overall performance.
But what are the real world benefits that end users will appreciate after this upgrade? Let’s see:
- Improved performance; CPU consumption is lower.
- Better visual appearance and fluency.
- Lower system memory consumption.
- Better text rendering and anti aliasing.
- Smaller size for the application files that leads to a faster loading and response times.
So we can conclude that we are very excited with this upcoming major release, and hope that you will have more fun and will be able to do great new web sites with this amazing tool.
The plis web team
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