There are basically no more barriers to entry with Adobe’s announcement today that much of Flex Data Services is being open sourced. In addition, they recently lowered the price of the Flex Builder IDE to $249. What reasons are left for Java developers to keep using crappy server side Java frameworks over Flex? Really. Please share.
Here are some links on today’s announcement:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2007/12/blazeds-open-sourcing-remoting-and-messaging/
http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2007/12/12/blazebench-why-you-want-amf-and-blazeds/
Also, check out my latest InfoQ.com post, where I talked with Adobe’s James Ward on some of the Misconceptions around Flex:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/top-10-flex-misconceptions
