After months of GWT and GXT at work I wanted to see how the other side looks like. In my case that would be Flash based rich internet applications. Long time ago I did some experiments with Open Laszló but I did not really get into it.

Now I decided to check Flex so I downloaded free Flex SDK and started with some simple examples and tutorials. Building user interface seems to be quite easy but there are a lot of things I have tried out, yet. Learning server connections using Blaze DS is on my TODO as well as trying out Maven with Flex.

So far Flex seems to be quite easy to get started with as soon as you understand the difference between MXML and ActionScript. The syntax of ActionScript 3 is not too bad for Java programmer. I also bought Flex on Java book from Manning with 50% discount so maybe I end up getting serious with Flex.