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Why javascript API and no FLEX?

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09-10-2015 08:23 AM
CarlosHernandez8
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Why javascript API and no FLEX?

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TimWitt2
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CarlosHernandez8
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Tim,

Muchas Gracias!!

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TracySchloss
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Our organization decided not to support FLEX even before ESRI decided to move away from it.  The main reasons were security issues with the Flash Plug-in and the lack of support on mobile devices. 

I will also add that when I was developing FLEX, there was a steady stream of updated Flash Players getting pushed in our organization, largely because of security holes in Flash.   Every time they pushed it, it broke my debug environment.  There was a debug version of the Flash Player I needed instead, which was replaced by the new standard Player every time they pushed an update.  I was constantly having to find the appropriate debug equivalent for the newest Player.  It was a pain!

I miss FLEX, but it seems like there's been a strong move to Javascript and the forum posters and ESRI staff participants I used to see on the FLEX forums are all now present on the Javascript posts.  That was definitely the writing on the wall for me that I was time to give up FLEX.