| Adobe Formally Releases Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 | | Print | |
| Sunday, 24 February 2008 | |
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A couple months later than promised, Adobe is releasing production versions of two of its Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks: Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0. The highlight is AIR, short for “Adobe Integrated Runtime”, is the cross-platform rich client that originated as Adobe’s Apollo project a year ago.
February 25, 2008 A couple months later than promised, Adobe is releasing production versions of two of its Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks: Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0. The highlight is AIR, short for “Adobe Integrated Runtime”, is the cross-platform rich client that originated as Adobe’s Apollo project a year ago. Although Adobe doesn't like the comparison, it’s in essence their counterpart to Microsoft’s Silverlight, which provides a “lite” cross-platform runtime for a subset of Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) rich client of Vista. Back in the fall, Adobe said it would eventually introduce a new HTML security model that would create separate “sandboxes” for Ajax logic and browser rendering. That feature’s not ready yet. For developers, AIR supports any Ajax framework, and the Adobe Labs developer site offers a tool that delivers Dreamweaver projects as Adobe AIR applications As for Flex 3, the enhancements are primarily incremental, consisting of the ability to import assets from Adobe’s Creative Suite 3, the flagship web design tool that includes the well known Dreamweaver web authoring tool. Both are available as open source under the Mozilla Public License.             |
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