Correction:
“The Openlaszlo development forums are filled with people who are stuck.”

That sums up the Openlaszlo forums. The OLZ team rarely (if at all) visits and/or responds to posts in the forum and seems to only be concerned with their paying customers. They want the opensource badge, but aren’t willing to put in the community effort. What they’re really after is free development and testing by the opensource community.

Sorry, but until they clean up their act, olz is a dead technology. Stick with Flex – backed by a major.

Now, maybe it could be done with Flash but as a developer who has had experience with programming languages (object-oriented, procedural, scripting) I found the way Flash programming worked to be very disorienting since it was geared towards events and frames occurring on a time-line rather than objects interacting of procedures being called. Maybe flash is intuitive for a person who does animations and films but being a programmer with none of that type of experience I was not one of those people.

OpenLaszlo like any language has its advantages and disadvantages. It seems to be good ad doing everything that standard web languages (HTML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, etc.) are not good at doing. However, it takes some getting used to, many of the things taken care of automatically by HTML have to be specifically programmed in OpenLaszlo. The language is a little counter-intuitive sometimes at first but once you have spent a couple of weeks developing with it you start to learn how to go about doing things in it and then it becomes a powerful way to do many of the things in a web application that you’ve always wanted to do but had never been able to do. The OpenLaszlo syntax is far simpler than programming Java GUIs or Flash applications in my opinion.

The OpenLaszlo development forums are also filled with helpful people who are always willing to help you figure out how to do something if you get stuck.

I’ve never tried Flex since it was not Free at the time I started my OpenLaszlo project so I can’t compare the two.

“http://groups.google.com/group/openlaszo“

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“http://groups.google.com/group/openlaszo“

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Tanto que ja disponibilizei um material em “português” é claro

Obrigado Pela Atenção de Todos

First I found openlaszlo a fun and approachable environment and have been using it since it’s first releases. I don’t do much actionscript or javascript but openlaszlo’s xml syntax makes exploring those other core languages a lot easier. When I heard flex was to be free I began looking at the code and example applications and felt immediately not at home with this other syntax for coding, perhaps it’s what they code flex code, found it cryptic and another learning curve I would to go through, an investment I wasn’t sure would pay. From the start laszlo is not intimidating is very organic in it’s nature as you code small applications into larger more complex systems. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents…it’s fun and I’m only limited by my imagination not encumbered by some rigid coding scheme. I need to spend more time with Flex to know where the flex is in that product. But that would take time away from laszlo ))