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Adobe AIR Has New Offerings for Flex Developers
Posted in Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, Rich Internet Applications by Shoaib Mirza on 19. September 2008
The new Adobe Air runtime allows developers to employ Adobe Flex technology in creating RIAs or rich internet applications that can be used in desktops.
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. AIR was designed to be a flexible runtime environment, as it enables existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to build a more customary desktop-like program. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be utilized in the desktop, instead of being a self-sufficient application framework.
Adobe AIR gives various benefits to Adobe Flex developers. One case in point is developers can use their existing skills, tools, and code to develop attractive desktop applications that rounds out web-based applications. Another key benefit is, adobe air lets developers link up desktop resources and data with web technologies to incorporate desktop and the web. These, along with several other Adobe AIR advantages will surely make the application a huge hit among Flex developers.
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Zend PHP and Adobe Flex Combined to Create RIAs
Posted in Adobe Flex, Rich Internet Applications by Mohammed Khan on 18. September 2008
Building rich internet applications has become a lot easier these days especially with the emergence of various technologies. One perfect case in point is the use of Flex on the userend as well as PHP on the backend to develop RIAs.
Zend Technologies Inc. has announced its alliance with Adobe Systems Inc. to speed up rich web application development with the deployment of PHP and Open Source Flex Framework. Zend has become popular for providing products and services used for developing, deploying, and managing Web based applications. The company builds application servers, development tools, and programming platforms that support the PHP application lifecycle.
The collaboration of the two huge companies aims to integrate the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of PHP and Zend Platform with the user experience benefits of the open source Flex framework. Both companies also hope to provide technologies, content and services, to allow enterprise developers to create web applications with Flex on the client and PHP on the server. Furthermore, the team up is expected to give developers a more enhanced experience using their own development environments.
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Silverlight 2: A Perfect Element for RIA
Posted in Microsoft WPF / Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications by Ali Asghar on 18. September 2008
At the AJAX World RIA Conference, Brad Adams will be hashing out on how to build Rich Internet Applications employing Microsoft’s Silverlight 2. Abrams is the Group Program Manager for Microsoft’s dotNet Framework. He is heavily involved in the development of SilverLight.
Rich Internet applications are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs usually run in a web browser without the need to installing software, and operate locally in a secure environment called sandbox.
Through Silverlight 2, developers can put together RIA applications that work best on operating systems such as Linux, Mac, and Windows. Silverlight 2 provides different controls such as Canvas, Grid and StackPanel that can be used to lay out items on a user interface. It can be applied to deploy rich, desktop-style applications without requiring the .NET Framework on a client machine. By utilizing Silverlight 2, end-users will have a rich data input application with minimal deployment worries.
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Adobe AIR Clinched by GlobalSign
Posted in Adobe AIR, Rich Internet Applications by M Rajan on 17. September 2008
GlobalSign has announced its support for Adobe AIR. The application can be obtained through GlobalSign code signing certificates to improve end-user confidence over Adobe’s runtime environment.
GlobalSign is a WebTrust certified certificate authority that provides publicly trusted X.509 compliant SSL, including the new EV SSL Extended Validation Certificate, S/MIME and code signing certificates for use on all popular platforms including Mobile. It provides certificates for signing Adobe Systems PDF documents with their DocumentSign product.
According to the company, code signing certificates will allow Adobe AIR developers to virtually package their applications. The certificates enhance productivity of web applications by supplying profound desktop integration. These can be acquired at a price of $229 for unlimited signings for a one or two year period.
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.
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AJAX and RIAs Pave the Way for the Enterprise Software Suite
Posted in AJAX, Rich Internet Applications by Mohammed Khan on 17. September 2008
At the AJAX World RIA conference and expo on October 20-22, David Knight will present how the availability of an AJAX platform for collecting and monetizing content can significantly alter the enterprise software business. He will be scrutinizing on the ability of AJAX-enabled platforms to remake the suite experience in various application areas. In addition, Knight will be hashing out on AJAX’s capacity to reinvent the desktop experience and improve worker productivity with combined applications.
AJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With this, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
The AJAX World RIA conference and expo will be held in San Jose, California which will feature more than 90 keynotes, power panels, and general session demos. The program aims to provide information on specific implementation plans that should be taken to survive in the business and gain web success in the years to come.
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HeatMap Featured in Adobe Flex
Posted in Adobe Flex, Rich Internet Applications by Kalpana Mada on 17. September 2008
Adobe Systems has decided to highlight HeatMap in its Adobe Flex 3.
A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors. It has been used for exhibiting areas of a Web page most often scanned by visitors which is also integrated in web analysis tools.
Adobe Flex 3 was officially released on February 5, 2008. From its beta version, it came out with major enhancements which include integration with the new versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite products, support for AIR. In addition, Flex 3 now supports the addition of profiling and refactoring tools to the Flex Builder IDE.
Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
