Java or adobe air/flash which make better desktop app?

Question

java or adobe air/flash which make better desktop app?

Answer 1

Java, definitely. Flash is really only for integrated media, and internet games. Java is used for making actual applications.

Answer 2

Hmm, well here's the thing. With java and flash, you could create desktop apps; however, your best bet with getting online would be with flash. Also, within java, you'll end up creating external graphics that will end up loading externally. Sure you'll do the same with flash, but the graphics won't necessarily be loading it externally, which means it would be a faster application. Oh, and you have much more capability, as far as visual effects, with air or flash! Definitely!

However, if you're into making an enterprise application, not so much with the visual effects, definitely stick with java. It's just, when you compared the two, I assumed you're heading in the direction of visual creativity. So, it really depends on how you're integrating this application: whether it's a media client or enterprise.

Let me know if there's anything else.

Abdurrahman Qadan

Answer 3

Well it depends in what your needs. Both application uses a script for flash they use "action script language" while Java use a "java script"

Both script is based on ECMAScript  so both are good. But one thing java makes good it is  now an OSS (open source software). It means it permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form.

In all java would be a better application due to its OSS. :)

Flash commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. It can also create a game

create also web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.

While java use in Dynamic programming, Function-level programming, Prototype-based and has a C syntax  alike.

Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devices and mobile phones on the low end to enterprise servers and supercomputers on the high end. Java is fairly ubiquitous in mobile phones, Web servers and enterprise applications, and somewhat less common on desktop computers, though users may have come across Java applets when browsing the World Wide Web.