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Yes, it’s official now and there is no need to keep the mouth shut fearing violatiion the non-disclosure agreement: the production release of an open source product Flex 3 is available today. The same is true for AIR 1.0 and BlazeDS.
Eighteen months ago Flex 2 was released, which literally changed the way people think of rich Internet applications. Since then lots of things have happened in the Flex community. In 2007 Adobe announced that Flex will go open source, and now it has happened. All ActionScript 3 and Java code including Flex compilers and debugger (FDB) are going open source. And let's not forget about the number of other open source products released by Adobe during the same period of time.
- Tamarin (ActionScript Virtual Machine)
- Spry Framework
Flex Ajax Video - Flex Ajax Bridge (now part of SDK)
- BlazeDS
Adobe AIR is an important step in bringing together Web and desktop applications. Surprisingly, the Beta versions of Flex 3 and AIR were used by many IT organizations for development of the real-world application. People could not wait to get a hold of these very productive and fun-to-work-with tools.
Adobe had and is still facing a challenging task – to spread wider in the predominantly Java/.NET enterprise world. But they already made some serious achievement in this direction. People have stopped asking “Flex who?” Java developers have successfully gone through the phases of Denial ("I-can-do-all-this-in-Java") and Anger ("I-don’t-need-no-proprietary-technologies"
Adobe continues its efforts to help enterprise developers to accept Flex. They work on various levels: with corporate executives, make departmental sales, and clearly demonstrate technical merits of Flex to software developers. My kudos to Adobe Flex evangelists Christophe Coenraets and James Ward who work mainly with Java developers. These guys live on planes, buses, trains, and automobiles delivering the message about Flex and AIR to people working in different industries. For example, in April they are coming to New York City addressing the financial community at the seminar Flex on Wall Street .
Adobe works very closely with academia on bringing students on board. Flex Builder is available for free for students and faculty. The rest of the Flex framework is free for everyone. Adobe Education Designer and Developer conference will take place next week in San Francisco . Adobe is bringing together the most creative and influential minds in the education community. Adobe is very serious about making their developers tools a household name in universities.
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About Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Currently Yakov works on the book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
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