There’s a thread going on

There's a thread going on at OTN about JDeveloper 9.0.5 and when will it be available. It's mostly the usual 'we've been waiting for it for some time now and can you give us a release date' but one particular area of discussion is the issue with using UIX (User Interface in XML) as a thin-client front-end.

One interesting area that's come up is the use of 'Using Flash Remoting for MX'. According to this article over at the O'Reilly Network,

"Flash Remoting MX enables Flash MX clients running in a browser or on a user's desktop to access and invoke methods on server-side components running in a J2EE, Cold Fusion, or .NET application server. It is an essential piece of Macromedia's toolset for creating Rich Internet Applications. These applications are deployed over the Web and provide a desktop-software-like interface to server-side application features"

which indicates that it's an alternative to Java Server Pages that can also be made to work with BC4J.

Now i've always had the approach that 'Flash is Evil', mainly because sites written mainly in Flash are much less useable than plain HTML, they break the browser's back and forward buttons, disable the address bar and make it impossible to bookmark pages your interested in.  However, what Macromedia are probably looking at is alternatives to java applets, where the user interacts with an application in the web page, and these examples give a good idea of what's possible. Not really to my taste, but i'd imagine there's probably a market for it.