Dr. Dobb's | Code Once Deploy Everywhere witth Adobe Flex 3 and AIR

Code Once Deploy Everywhere witth Adobe Flex 3 and AIR

This week Adobe announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software which combine to create a technology platform for enabling rich Internet applications (RIAs). The importance of RIA's, a term Adobe coined several years ago, is the promise in the near term to eliminate the usability and functionality boundaries between desktop and web applications. And more importantly for the long term, RIA's promise to eliminate those same boundaries between mobile, desktop and web applicaitons. The concept of coding an application once and deploying it everywhere, seamlessly running it as a web application, desktop application and a mobile application is quickly becoming a reality. Microsoft has released a competing technology Microsoft® Silverlight™.

February 23, 2008
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