

The beta version of Adobe AIR and the Adobe AIR SDK (software developer’s kit) can be downloaded for free here.

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New features in the Adobe AIR beta include an embedded local database, PDF support, enhanced capabilities for JavaScript developers, and deeper integration with Adobe Flex. However, “we tried to get Apollo itself, but it was too widely used for too many other things,” he said.Īdobe AIR is a cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to use HTML/CSS, AJAX, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex to extend RIAs to the desktop.


Lynch said the new name for the technology formerly known as Apollo was selected for several reasons, one because with AIR it connotes ubiquity. The Flex 3 beta features more data synchronization and data management capabilities, and more support for building Apollo applications, he said. Fortunately, Adobe was there really early and we changed our applications to allow these things to be done.” The amount of attention to the RIA space is a good thing. “I think choice is good because people benefit when there are more solutions. “The overall trend of RIA and Web applications puts pressure on Microsoft and they’re starting to change a bit to react to that trend,” Lynch said. It fills in a feature in the browser, he said. Gears is a plug-in to the browser and AIR works outside the browser, Lynch said. Moreover, he said, what Adobe is doing with Google Gears “is we’re working on adding local database support for AIR, so the APIs will make this commitment across Gears for AIR and for desktop applications.” But mostly we have PDF support, local database supprt, drag-and-drop to drag AIR applications onto desktops for more integration to the desktop.” “We’re also looking into authoring tools for Dreamweaver and Flash authoring. “We got more improvement for AJAX developers to more easily write applications for AIR,” Lynch said. The Flex 3 public beta also marks the first significant deliverable for the open source Flex project, beginning with the availability of nightly builds and a public bug database, he said. This release adds new user interface capabilities, enhanced developer productivity, desktop deployment and enterprise testing and performance tools, Lynch said.Ĭlick here to read more about Google Gears’ impact on Apollo. In addition, Adobe on June 11 announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 3 software, codenamed “Moxie,” the cross-platform, free open source framework for creating RIAs (rich Internet applications).
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In an interview with eWEEK, Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe, said the San Jose, Calif.-based company has released a beta of Adobe AIR, based on feedback from the alpha version released earlier.Īdobe AIR has the same database that exists in Google Gears, “and we’re going to align the APIs between Adobe AIR and Google Gears,” Lynch said. Adobe is giving its Apollo cross-operating system software for building rich Internet applications the formal name of Adobe AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime.
