Archive for December 31st, 2009
December 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Adobe FLEX Versus Papyrus EYE
Tony Byrne analyst with CMSWatchsays that FLEX allows vendors like EMC Documentum to create nice demoware but cause longterm problems for the user. I absolutely agree except that I feel similar about Ajax in terms of complexity and maintenance. We looked at FLEX and decided against it because it is pure and not so simple programming therefore creating support and maintenance issues. But one should not mix up FLEX with the Flash engine that is in many ways one of the most powerful graphic environments available.
Tony pushes his finger deeply into the userrequirement for GUIs wound. Ouch! We know that one. Business users buy GUIs and not systems or architectures. We have been fighting for userGUI acceptance for a decade. We never managed to make it flexible and appealing and userconfigurable enough. We recently tried FLEX and found it way to rigid to solve those issues in any practical way.
Others disagree with Tony saying that it is not a problem of FLEX but what vendors implement with it. That may be partially true. I still would not want to base my customers user interface on a library of Flash plus FLEX and having to debug both. Duane from Adobe says that proper coding avoids those problems and claims that Adobe LiveCycle solves many of those support and versioning issues. Having been exposed to LiveCycle I seriously doubt that.
The only way to avoid the problems of FLEX and AJAX is to use managed lifecycle deployment for theEYE GUI components as we do with the Papyrus WebRepository. There is no Java coding required to assemble a GUI layout but just parameterizing the GUI objects in our EYE designer.
Our GUI definitions deploy transparently to QT in our PC desktop and to Flash in the browser. There are no deployment issues except that you will need a minimum level of Flash version installed. I guess that is doable. Because the communication with our Flash engine is not XML and uses an encrypted data format the security concerns are addressed. The performance issues disappeared when we dumped XML as a transport format and created our own GUI server protocol on top of HTTP. As it happens we also have an AJAX implementation in the works but it will be less appealing with less features.
The answer to our users is: You can modify the UI yourself on a rolebyrole basis WITHOUT CODING in a GUI design tool and our platform safely controls the versioned deployment so we can teach you how to adapt your GUI to your needs in just a few days.
Our decade long fight for GUI acceptance is over and we won it.
Papyrus EYE is several times more powerful and flexible than FLEX!
About the writer: Max J. Pucher is the founder and current Chief Architect of ISIS Papyrus Software a globally operating company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence for business process and communication. He has written several books frequently speaks and writes on IT and holds several patents.
Video Player On A Web – Paste Videos Onto Any Site !
Whenever you look for a video player on a web be sure you know what you’re doing or else you could end up with an unsuitable one which might lead to your frustration with the inferior results. Have a look at the following article in which i provide the knowhow of how and where to find a suitable welldesigned movie player for the web.
Videos for the internet can be very useful once you find a suitable spot for them on your site; your visitors enjoy watching movies instead of being ‘bombarded’ with nothing but words naturally your video’s subject matter has to be interesting and appropriate to the content of your website but you need to be sure to show your movies using a state of the art player that would attract your viewers to watch it in less than a second.
What happens is that by inserting a video player on a web in the right location while using the right colors and style your videos can actually inspire those who visit your website to give it a viewing and follow your lead. So now that you realize the requirement for a state of the art web video player let me point out how to quickly find one.
First off you need to know that in order to make it possible to show videos on your website it must first be converted to the web’s preferred format .flv flash video and afterwards it can be played on a flash video player. Does this sound difficult? No it’s a very easy thing to do you can find a variety of suitable software solutions on the web that will allow your videos to be viewed on the web and will transfer an embedded video player into your desired webpage.
Allow me to offer a word of advice before your hunt for a video player on a web be sure that your chosen tool allows you to select from a wide range of player styles and player ‘skins’ and that you will be able to select the player’s dimensions and the quality level of display. Realize that it is essential for you to be able to manipulate these variables on your own; this gives you the ability to decide on the variables and the most essential thing a significantly better website performance!
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