Adobe AIR fulfills hopes for cross-platform developers
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InfoWorld - Developers have high hopes for Adobe&#39;s newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, but reservations remain about the technology&#39;s cross-platform capability and learning curve.
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Macromedia Monday shipped Flex Builder, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Web applications built on the company&#39;s XML-based Flex application platform.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. A public beta of ColdFusion 8, accessible here, is to be offered on Wednesday. The general release is set for mid-year. Version 8 is the first Adobe-branded release of the former Macromedia technology. ColdFusion is a server-side Java application; it is partnered with a markup language for writing ColdFusion applications. .Net support in the upcoming version 8 bridges the Java and Microsoft worlds. "Customers don't need to select one technology to the exclusion of the other," Tim Buntel, Adobe senior product marketing manager, said. Also featured in ColdFusion 8 is generation of PDF documents as well as capabilities for working with PDF forms and manipulating existing PDF documents. Support for the JBoss application server has been added, also. For developers, Adobe is adding interactive debugging based on the Eclipse IDE. A Server Monitor capability, meanwhile, identifies bottlenecks in the server. Adobe's Flex rich Internet application technology and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components are leveraged in the new product for integration of complex environments with intuitive interfaces, Adobe said. ColdFusion differs from Flex in that Flex is a client-side technology featuring a language and compiler to convert code to Flash content. With ColdFusion, the server-side technology can integrate with databases and Java and .Net objects while also offering text searching. However, ColdFusion also can generate an HTML interface for Web applications. The ColdFusion upgrade puts to rest questions about Adobe's commitment to the technology after acquiring Macromedia, said analyst Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and Web services at Gartner.Â  "People may have wondered if Adobe appreciated ColdFusion, and I think they do. I think it's part of their enterprise software strategy," Valdes said. While Adobe recently offered the Flex software development kit to the community at large via open source, there are no plans to open-source ColdFusion. This stance gives the company the ability to make certain ColdFusion integrates with other Adobe technologies, Buntel said.
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Mike Potter has posted an update on the status that Adobe is making for developers, including some new offerings for PHPers.    Over the last several months, Adobe has made enormous progress with software developers. In the few short months since the Macromedia acquisition, we have released new products, opened access to SDKs and continued to create communities of open source software.   We released two RIA SDKs: one for PHP developers and one for Ruby on Rails developers.  Both of those are free, as in speech.  Head to Google Code for the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe or the Ruby on Rails RIA SDK by Adobe.  Join the mailing list for either of them (PHP, Ruby), they're fairly active.    It's great to see a larger company taking such an interest in the dynamic web languages out there and providing good, solid tools for thier developers to use to create bigger and better applications.
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The new beta API for Adobe ActionScript will allow developers to build Web-based applications using Adobe Flex and Flash software using a native API for improved performance over current methods, MapQuest said.
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Investing in Adobe would be a no-brainer -- if it weren't for its competitors.
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Adobe Systems has introduced Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software suite, with features that could appeal to home offices and professionals who make a living from content design.
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Adobe's Creative Suite 3 programs are not fully tested with 'Leopard.'
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Macromedia promises to speed development of Internet applications with a new tool for its Flex platform. With Flex, enterprises can add interfaces to strategic applications, including visual
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AIR time And so to Barcelona for Adobe Max 2007 Europe, the company's developer conference, where we caught up with chief software architect Kevin Lynch.â¦
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For those that weren't able to make it to Adobe's webcast for combining Flex and PHP for web developers, the host Mike Potter has posted the slides for your review.   The session is targeted at PHP developers starting out with Flex.  I'll show examples of how to connect to a PHP datasource using three different methods - REST web service, JSON and AMFPHP.  I'll discuss the advantages and disadvantages to using each of them, and then show you how to extend your in browser application to the desktop using Adobe AIR.   You can find the slides here [pdf]. Also, if you want the full experience of the webcast and not just the slides, you can also sign up for the other session on July 17th.
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Photoshop beta will have native Mac support; also coming are CSS Advisor and Ajax tools for Web designers.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel plans to show ultramobile PC devices based on its upcoming Menlow chip platform running AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Ubuntu Linux distribution at the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday. The demonstrations will offer a clearer view of what Menlow devices may look like and the capabilities they will offer when released. Due to hit the market in early 2008, Menlow is based on the dual-core Silverthorne processor and single-chip Poulsbo chipset. Intel is betting this package will spur demand for small, portable computers with long battery life and wireless connectivity. It hopes to see many of these devices run Linux instead of Windows, and Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, is scheduled to be joined on stage by Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO and founder of Canonical, to show a device running on an alpha version of Ubuntu Mobile, a Linux distribution designed for ultraportable PCs. Chandrasekher also plans to demonstrate a Menlow-based device running Adobe Systems' AIR, a runtime environment for Web applications that function like desktop applications and work on a range of operating systems. AIR applications can be written using HTML, Flash, and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). As part of the AIR demonstration, Chandrasekher is expected to show a device running the Adobe Media Player, an AIR application that can download and play "premium content," Intel said.
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With 500 million desktops running their Reader and Flash applications and two million designers and developers building more content constantly, Adobe isn't exactly hurting for presence. The trick now is to branch out to mobile phones. Here's Adobe's plan.
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Future AdSense integration demonstrateded at London Developer Day.
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Adobe Systems Inc. is releasing  new design tools that further blur the divide between software  that runs offline on computer desktops and programs that work  on the Web, the company said on Sunday.
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Presentate alla Conferenza di Berlino le novitÃ  della versione 2.0 e le strategie di marketing per la suite per ufficio open source che Ã¨ compatibile anche con Mac OS X. La comunitÃ  OpenOffice.org, la suite