Latest News from Flex News Desk

Akamai Unveils the Akamai HD Network

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Akamai Technologies has announced the Akamai HD Network, its next generation video delivery offering and a platform to deliver HD video online to viewers using Adobe Flash technology, Microsoft Silverlight, and to the iPhone, at broadcast-level audience scale. The Akamai HD Network is the only solution that supports live and on-demand HD streaming with a highly-personalized and interactive online experience that matches and complements HD television.

Brightcove Rolls Out Support for Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:45:00 EDT

Brightcove has announced that it has rolled out broad support for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media Server 3.5 through content delivery services provided by Limelight Networks, providing more than 700 customers in 28 countries with turn-key access to enhanced dynamic delivery capabilities for HD-quality online video. Brightcove has also introduced on-demand access to advanced security options for video stream encryption and SWF verification to the company's global customer base.

Adobe Flash Platform Services Unveiled

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Platform Services for Distribution, a new service that enables advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize applications across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. Adobe Flash Platform Services are online, hosted services that allow developers to add innovative capabilities to Web applications with a predictable, cost efficient deployment model. Developers, advertisers and publishers are now using Adobe Flash Platform Services to make Web applications sharable, social, and collaborative.

Jaspersoft Announces New JasperReports Professional

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 EDT

Jaspersoft has announced the immediate availability of JasperReports Professional, now with Flash-based geo-visualization and advanced charting capabilities. Jaspersoft is also introducing a new low-cost JasperReports Professional Developer Edition, which will make it even easier to get started with these powerful new capabilities.

Adobe and Broadcom Bring HD Flash Video to Intel Atom Processors

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Broadcom and Adobe Systems announced an engineering collaboration to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe Flash technology based video content on platforms powered by Intel Atom processors. This collaboration paves the way for rich, seamless entertainment experiences on Intel Atom processor enabled netbooks and nettops, offering users new options for accessing and engaging with Web content from popular online providers worldwide.

Adobe and NVIDIA Announce GPU Acceleration for Flash Player

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

NVIDIA, and Adobe Systems announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, to leverage GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices, including netbooks, tablets, mobile phones and other on-the-go media devices.

Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha Now on Adobe Labs

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Adobe Flex® software, to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems. RIA developers can extend the reach of their desktop applications on Adobe AIR to Linux users without writing additional platform-specific code, providing access to innovative, branded desktop applications that were previously only available to Mac and Windows users.

Adobe Announces New Flash Platform Tools

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:45:00 EDT

“People are now expecting the same richness and ease of use in their workplace applications that they have in their daily Web experiences, but companies today are faced with strained development resources and less time to create intuitive applications,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The new Adobe® Flash® Platform tools help solve this challenge..."

Growth by Leveraging Adobe Scene7

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:45:00 EDT

Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform.

The New York Times Launches Enhanced Version of Times Reader Powered by Adobe AIR

Mon, 11 May 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Today, the New York Times Company and Adobe launched a new version of the Times Reader—the electronic version of the newspaper with online/offline capabilities, powered by Adobe AIR. The enhanced version of Times Reader 2.0 resembles the printed paper even more closely, and content is updated every five minutes or even more often if users choose, with the latest news from the New York Times.

Enterprise Development with Flex

Fri, 08 May 2009 09:14:00 EDT

O'Reilly has published an excerpt from the upcoming book on enterprise development with Flex.

Anark Accepted as Adobe Solution Provider

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:05:00 EDT

Anark Corporation has announced that it has been accepted as an Adobe Systems Incorporated Solution Partner. Adobe's Solution Partner Program is designed for companies that provide solution-based sales, system integration, services, or extended products based on Adobe technology.

Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Adobe and Facebook today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free and open source programming language library that is expected to be a complete resource supporting all Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs) including Facebook Connect.

Adobe's Progress Report

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:45:00 EDT

This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report in the RIA space.

ESRI Releases ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:45:00 EDT

ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated business models and intelligence to be developed cooperatively. ArcGIS Business Analyst Server also provides a host of prepackaged processes, data, and functions that allow users to generate analyses and workflows with less time spent in development and deployment.

Yakov Fain Launches Clear Toolkit Magazine on Ulitzer

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Yakov Fain, one of the top 3 Ulitzer bloggers, launched a new magazine on Ulitzer as a one stop shop for all Flex/AIR/Java developers who decided to use open source Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications.

Clear Toolkit Framework for Adobe Flex Goes Open Source

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:15:00 EST

Clear Toolkit is a framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. It includes Eclipse plugins, enhanced Flex components and solutions for automatic data synchronization for AIR/BlazeDS applications. Now it's been open sourced under the MIT license.

Adobe Announces Flash Lite Distributable Player

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:15:00 EST

Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, a new, over-the-air mobile runtime. The new player enables developers and content providers to create Flash technology-based applications that target the latest version of the runtime, and directly distribute their applications with the runtime installer to millions of open OS devices for a better on-device user experience. Available immediately as a public beta, the Distributable Player initially supports Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices and builds on the momentum Adobe Flash technology has experienced in the mobile market.

Adobe AIR Marketplace

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:22:00 EST

Adobe launched a new version of the Adobe AIR Marketplace—a user-friendly, online destination showcasing developer applications powered by Adobe AIR.

Adobe Flash Platform Achieves Record Adoption Across Industries

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:15:00 EST

Adobe announced at that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 software are being installed in record numbers by consumers and companies around the world. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR. Additionally, Adobe Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 55 percent of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release, and is expected to surpass 80 percent by the second quarter of 2009, far outpacing the installation rate of past versions of the software.

AGent Iluminar Built with Open Source Flex, Offers Web 2.0 Functionality

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Auto-Graphics has announced the development of AGent Iluminar, a next generation Web Services application for the company’s library automation platform. AGent Iluminar was built using the free open source Flex framework, which provides end-to-end development of rich Internet applications that run identically on all major browsers and operating systems. AGent Iluminar provides a more visual and interactive user experience to facilitate social networking, and “drag and drop” customization capabilities for an improved user experience and administrative workflow.

Across Systems to Bring IAI QA Technology to U.S. Markets

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST

Across Systems, the provider of the Across Language Server, and IAI (Institute for Applied Information Science at Saarland University) have expanded their relationship and broadened the integration of their two technologies. The direct connection of the Controlled Language Authoring Tool (CLAT) to the Across component crossAuthor allows companies operating at an international level to create multilingual documents using both rule-based and statistical methods. Across will market the combined solution in the United States in the first quarter of 2009 making it available as an add-on for MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, PTC Arbortext and MadCap Flare.

Farata Systems Achieves Performance Breakthrough with Adobe BlazeDS

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:00 EDT

Live Cycle Data Services is an excellent solution for building scalable RIA, but it’s not cheap. For those who don’t have a budget for LCDS, Adobe has released open sourced BlazeDS as a scaled down implementation of AMF. But BlazeDS is a lot more scalable than one may think.

Flash Player 10 is released!

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:01:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver the most compelling Web applications, interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple browsers and all major operating systems.

Clear Toolkit for Flex Goes Private Beta

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:41:00 EDT

Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems that they were using internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects. This toolkit will be available free of charge.

Flex 4 SDK News

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Yesterday, a new component architecture and feature specifications were provided to the Flex SDK open source developer community. The Flex team targets three primary teams: design in mind, developer productivity, and framework evolution.

Upcoming events for Flex developers

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EDT

AX 2008 conference is the main event for people interested in the software made by Adobe. MAX North America will take place in San Francisco MAX-2008 in November and the session schedule is published. This year its agenda includes more fifty sessions about Flex. Two more Flex events are scheduled this year.

Adobe Releases Significantly Enhanced LiveCycle ES

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EDT

Adobe has released a substantially enhanced BPM/RIA solution. While LiveCycle suite isn't new software, its popularity increased in June of 2007 when the entire suite started to run on the same J2EE server and the RIA components were introduced. Today, over 5,000 enterprises use LiveCycle in financial services, government, manufacturing, and other verticals. Flex developers will enjoy easier integration with this powerful BPM software.

AJAX RIA News Desk - TopQuadrant Delivers TopBraid Live 2.0

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:45:00 EDT

TopQuadrant has announced the general availability of TopBraid Live 2.0, a semantic application deployment platform that simplifies the creation of web services to a 'click and connect' process. Users can connect data from RDF stores, relational databases, spreadsheets, email, RSS feeds, as well as data in HTML and XML formats, without the need to understand programming languages. A new Flex API creates graphical 'information spaces' as the output, which allow users to browse dynamic information by following graphical links.

Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now on Adobe Labs

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 EDT

Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named 'Astro', builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout, and GPU hardware acceleration.

Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

Flex on Wall Street

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EDT

If you are evaluating technologies for your next rich Internet financial application, do not miss this one day event 'Flex on Wall Street' that will take place in New York City on April 18, 2008.

Communigate delivers Pronto!

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT

CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0, the latest version of its powerful, yet lightweight Unified Communications user interface framework built with Adobe® Flex® 3, deployed in the browser with Adobe Flash® Player and to the desktop with Adobe® AIR.

Application Built in Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Verb Exchange announced a deal with interface design specialist, Nitobi, to develop the desktop and web interfaces for Tabrio, a new way to stay in touch with anyone, anywhere. Verb Exchange and Nitobi will work together to enhance the Tabrio user experience, making Tabrio feature-rich.

ILOG Ships Graphical Visualization Tool for Flex

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:15:00 EST

ILOG. a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG Elixir, available now, was warmly received by the Adobe Flex community during its Beta period.

AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, New York Times, Deutsche Bank, Nick.com, Sharp Take To the AIR

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:30:00 EST

Question: What do AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, The New York Times Company, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's Nick.com, Sharp Corporation and others have in common? The answer is that've all launched pioneering Rich Internet Applications deployed on Adobe AIR, to coincide with the official release today of AIR 1.0.

Adobe Flex Rules, Everything Else Drools

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:30:00 EST

The article is basically 'Flex rules, everything else drools'. It goes on and on about the good things about Flex, while giving only cursory coverage of Flex drawbacks. Meanwhile, it's just the opposite regarding the other technologies, going on and on about drawbacks, and giving only cursory coverage of advantages. Case in point, Yakov says that Java Swing development is 'hugely expensive'. Nonsense. First, NetBeans is completely free, and NetBeans has the wonderful Matisse GUI designer, making the development of great looking Swing UIs a snap. Second, there is JavaFX, which is an XML based declarative scripting language that is used to quickly build rich Swing UIs super easy, and is very similar to MXML/Action Script, as is featured in Yakov's beloved Flex. Third, there is a plethora of third party libraries and controls in the Swing ecosystem, that further extends Swing capabilities, and makes Swing development easier.

Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:00:00 EST

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools - including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components - make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps.

Discovery Channel and EffectiveUI Launch Earth Live

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Earth Live is an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to learn the world by engaging them with a more effective UI, so complex information such as climate change can be digestible by a regular person. The application uses digital imagery so the user can interactively create a climate picture of the planet Earth. The UI offers several layers, and you can load the content of the layer (i.e. rain) onto the 3D image of the globe.

RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST

ASP.NET AJAX is a natural candidate for RIA development under the .NET framework. However, there are other complementary or even alternative technologies that are worth your consideration. This session will start with a brief market overview and outline the pros and cons of some of the emerging and established frameworks, particularly JavaFX, Silverlight, and Flex. We will then dive into hands-on labs for delivering applications using Flex and .NET. You'll see specific implementations utilizing web services, FlourineFX (open source Flash remoting) and WebORB (commercial Flash remoting). We will also discuss delivering desktop applications using Adobe AIR, streaming video over the web, and engaging your audience with audio/video chat. Basically all the must-have features of today's Rich Internet Applications.

How Do You Pick the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While the Internet brings a lot of noise where 'it's cool' is the most popular definition, this presentation is an overview of what's out there on the enterprise RIA market. We'll talk about the pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for the development of the front end for complex distributed systems.

RIA Tookits, Frameworks and IDEs: How Do You Really Choose the Right One?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST

This session will address issues to consider when selecting an AJAX toolkit and the most effective IDE for the implementation. It will identify the 30-40 UI components most commonly used in business and mission critical software applications that can be used as a benchmark for evaluating various toolkits, then explore the top evaluation criteria including component behaviors, customization, flexibility, frameworks, licensing and documentation. Attendess will be provided with a comparison survey for the 6-8 most widely used AJAX UI component libraries. Further discussion will address how to select the appropriate IDE once a commitment has been made to a AJAX UI toolkit.

Flash Player Will Remain the Best Deployment Platform for RIAs

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:30:00 EST

In our annual round-up of technology predictions, Yakov Fain - editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Flex Developer's Journal - says 'Flash Player will remain the best deployment platform for rich Internet applications. While Microsoft is trying to come up with a competitive delivering platform for RIA, it?s not going to happen in 2008. Silverlight 1.0 is a good start, the next version (1.1) will be even better, but it?ll take time to release a product that can do more than streaming multimedia.'

Boost Productivity of Your Flex-Java Project with Log4Fx Component

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:30:00 EST

It's hard to overestimate the importance of having a good logging facility when you develop distributed applications. Did the client's request reached the server-side component? What did the server send back? Add to this inability of using debuggers while processing GUI events like focus change, and you may need to spend hours if not days trying to spot some sophisticated errors. That's why a commercial-grade logger is a must if you work with an application that is spread over the network and is written in different languages such as Adobe Flex and Java.

Mozilla Prism: A Competitor for Adobe AIR?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EDT

Mozilla Labs announces 'a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur'.

RadView Unveils Product for Load Testing of Adobe Flex 2 Applications

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EDT

RadView Software Ltd. has announced that its WebLOAD Professional has become a full-featured product to load test applications developed with Adobe Flex 2 software and the AMF3 protocol. WebLOAD's support for Adobe Flex covers all phases of load testing and enables users to record, edit, parameterize and load test their Flex applications.

Adobe to Acquire Virtual Ubiquity

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EDT

Adobe has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity and its ground-breaking online word processor, Buzzword. The acquisition furthers Adobe's commitment to foster a vibrant ecosystem for rich Internet application (RIA) development that delivers breakthrough experiences built on Adobe AIR.

PassAlong Networks, Cynergy and Adobe Flex Power Next-Generation Digital Music Applications

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:45:00 EDT

Media distribution developer PassAlong Networks and Cynergy Systems, Inc., have announced a series of media products based on Adobe Flex technology. The partnership includes PassAlong's OnTour concert information widgets and the Speakerheart artist-controlled music management and promotions platform; additional music showcase and playlist widgets are currently in development.

A New Public Beta of Flex 3 Is Available

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDT

At Max 2007, Adobe has announced availability and the list of new features of the second public beta release of Flex 3 SDK and Flex Builder 3. Below is a quote of this announcement. 'Check out these important new features in Flex 3 beta 2

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Price Changes

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EDT

New packaging and pricing will be available for Adobe Flex 3 when it ships early in 2008. It'll become available in two editions: Adobe Flex Builder 3 Standard Edition and Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition.