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James Gosling on JavaFX and Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR January 8, 2008

Posted by suketuvyas in : General, Rich Internet Application, AIR, Flash, Flex, JavaFX , add a comment

Kathleen Richards has posted notes of interview with James Gosling (Creator of the java programming language).

Here are some Q&A Discussed with James Gosling which are specifically for Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR.

How will JavaFX be positioned with regard to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR?
[James] : It certainly competes with both of those. I think we have a much broader and more capable API set. We’ve got a much stronger security story and cross-platform story and a really strong performance story. And I think our deliverable will be really nice.

As organizations think about building rich Internet applications or rich client applications, when should developers look at JavaFX over competing technologies?
[James] :  “If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.” We’ve had a platform for years that can build rich Internet applications that are extremely sophisticated.
Our issue hasn’t really been, can you build interesting rich Internet applications? But that it’s difficult. And most of our efforts really are around making a lot of it easier.

In RIA technology space Flash Platform and AJAX are leader and Microsoft (Silverlight) and SUN (JavaFX) are just coming in action.

I am sure that Flash/Flex Platform Community will have some reaction on this.

You can read full article here…

AIR Beta 3 Released December 13, 2007

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Adobe Air LogoAdobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Beta 3 includes the following new features:

Download: Adobe Labs

Related Links: Adobe AIR Beta 3 Released on Labs

Flex 3 on RAD way September 26, 2007

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Ted Patrick has posted the new feature for Flex 3 Beta 2 “CURD wizard for ASP .NET, PHP, JAVA and WSDL Introspection”.

Flex 3 Beta 2 will have the feature to generate server side Code for data exchange with ASP .NET, PHP, JAVA. Where you can simply select the database and select the table and you will have options to retrieve, create, update and delete record.

This will have the WSDL integration where you have to type WSDL URL in wizard and it will give you all methods exposed by the web service so you can use it.

CURD Generated code will use XML format for exchanging the data between Flex Application and CURD generated scripts.

On RAD (Rapid Application Development) way:
This feature will be very helpful for creating data driven Rich Internet Application Prototypes in quickly. It will be easy for any entry level developer to understand the Flex by creating small data driven applications.

Inside .AIR July 19, 2007

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I have started playing with AIR. I found it very easy and effective to create desktop applications rapidly.

I was playing with AIR sample files and discovered that you can extract .AIR file using file zipping tool (WinZip / Win RAR)

For Instance:

Select any Air file and open with Winzip / winrar and extract that file to some folder.

It will result in to following package structure..

/myAppRoot
        /META-INF
             /AIR
                  application.xml
                  hash
        myApp.swf
        mimetype
        /images
                  image-1.png
                  …
                  image-n.png
        /libs
                  lib-1.swf
                  …
                  lib-n.swfAIRAlias.js

This gives an idea of how .air file is structured when it is packaged.

Adobe Air: Get Free eBook Download June 27, 2007

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Mike Chambers and Aodbe AIR team has released new Adobe AIR book for JavaScript developers called “Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide”

Download PDF from Here 

This Book covers following topics

· Introduction to AIR
· Getting Started with AIR development
· Working with JavaScript and HTML within AIR
· AIR Mini Cookbook
· Command line tools
· Aliases

Thanks guys for the free book.

Adobe AIR (Apollo) Developer Derby Contest June 11, 2007

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With the release of AIR (Apollo) Beta Adobe has announced a Developer Derby Contest.

Oh God… :) You can win cool prizes.

Grand Prize / Best of Show
The Best of Show winner will receive the trip of a lifetime, a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice!

Five category winners will each receive “The Ultimate Development Environment” to power your Adobe AIR development (and play) for years to come:

Plus each winner also receives:
A trip and conference pass to the Adobe MAX 2007 annual user conference.
Your application showcased on Adobe.com for the world to see.
Contest open for following categories:

This Contest is open to individuals who are citizens or working or studying under a valid visa/permit in the 50 United States (including Washington D.C.), Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey.

For more info Visit here…

Go On AIR :)

Apollo = Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) : available for download June 10, 2007

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Finally Apollo Code name is replaced by “Adobe Integrated Runtime” Which has support to the heml SQL Lite an d Actionscript API

“SQLLite”……. Isn’t it very exiteing????

So get started and download Adobe Air SDK form following link

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/airsdk.html

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