OpenLazlo 3.0 is out

Posted by Denis
April 29, 2005

I’ve being discussing some months ago with François from BEA. he told me he was a strong believer of flash related smart client solutions, especially Flex from Macromedia. His point was that flash is a market standard, that the resulting applications are pretty smart, and that you can build them fast.

Even if I am impressed by the kind of UI you can build with Flex or OpenLaszlo, I was convinced that many CIO will never invest in:

  • Flash has not the right image, it can’t be see by CIO another way than multimedia toy.
  • Not standard, especially for business logic implemented on the client side

    • Another point was that you need to implemente these systems server side application server. Everyone is tired to complexify architecture with yet-another-package-on-the-server. Especially in the java world.

    Lazlo has got that point, and just released OpenLaszlo 3.0. You can build some RIA applications with openlaszlo 3.0 without server app. That’s a very good point. It can accelerate the deployment of flash based application on the net, and then make Flex or OpenLaszlo the next thing.

    François, you’re maybe right….

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