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This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

ChristianOrdonez — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:05:26 GMT

At ESRI Developer Conference showed that the Flex API was going to be updated until later this year, but not if this is the same case for this Java Script API

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

JeffPace — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:08:37 GMT

Flex and Silverlight are end of life.

Javascript is forever

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

ChristianOrdonez — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:11:16 GMT

Great to know it

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

OwenEarley — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:15:22 GMT

Nothing is forever

Something will eventually replace Javascript - just not in the foreseeable future.

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

JeffPace — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:17:27 GMT

yes i was being facetious, however at the moment it looks like all the eggs are going in the html5/javascript basket.

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

OwenEarley — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:01:13 GMT

I totally agree Jeff. The momentum shift from proprietary solutions to html/js has been huge in the past few years.

Despite the issues with html/js it has a huge amount of flexibility. I just wish all browsers could just handle things in a consistent way...

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

Noah-Sager — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:01:06 GMT

It looks like you guys are already having a good conversation, but I would like to add an official blog we have that you can refer to and/or comment on to voice your questions and opinions:

Esri’s Roadmap for Web Developers

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

LucasDorrough — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:31:27 GMT

I feel like javascript will be here for years to come, it has come along way from its early years (still not perfect) and has the huge support of major companies and several more are breaking down and joining the javascript bandwagon, I think you will see that in a few years browsers will start to display everything the same, the mass user exodus from IE to firefox and chrome has kinda shook microsoft awake and they have been making progress this. Plus with frameworks like dojo, and bootstrap these make it easy to have the same interface on all platforms.

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

JessicaGooch1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:40:37 GMT

Is it just me or does it seem like anytime someone references an ESRI blog post it just takes you to the top of the ArcGIS blog and it does not bring you right to the actual content the person is trying to reference? It could definitely be operator error...I would like to read the linked blog post but I can't seem to find it...

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

Noah-Sager — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:42:44 GMT

Hmm, I've heard that before, actually.

I've also heard that if you click on the link once, go to the generic blog page, close the window, then click on the link again it might work better.

Re: This API is going to disappear? As well as Flex and Silverlight?

JessicaGooch1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:50:46 GMT

Ha! And that works!!! I clicked the link, generic blog page, I close generic blog page, click the link and Voila!

Thanks Noah