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Adobe steers Flash toward RIA implenetation


By Alex Handy
November 17, 2008 — 
Adobe’s not just for artists anymore. At today's session of its developer conference in San Francisco, the company behind Flash and Photoshop announced a new UI design tool, integrations with SAP’s NetWeaver and the release of Adobe AIR 1.5.

Dave Gruber, group product marketing manager at Adobe, said this year’s conference was heavily weighted toward Flash—specifically, Flash as a platform rather than simply an RIA technology.

“The platform provides an integrated set of tooling, frameworks and runtimes to allow developers to write once and run anywhere,” said Gruber. Adobe’s developer tools are evolving to accommodate a world where agile and distributed development practices are increasingly the norm, he said. Thus model-view-controller principles are being extended across the company’s development tools.

The newest member of that platform is Adobe Flash Catalyst, an interface design tool that squarely targets the “view” in the model-view-controller architecture. Catalyst, formerly named Thermo, “allows creative professionals to rapidly create application interfaces and interactive content, without any coding,” said Gruber.

A preview of Catalyst was made available exclusively to conference attendees, as was a preview of the next version of Adobe Flex Builder, code-named Gumbo.

“Gumbo adds two really important, new, large-scale capabilities and a whole lot of other advancements,” said Gruber. “We did a number of things in Flex Builder to make it easy for Catalyst to work with same code as Flex Builder. You can now launch [the] Flash editing capability in Flex Builder. The biggest new feature set that comes out in Gumbo is a set of features around data-centric development.”

Gumbo includes service-binding handlers that can tie an offered Web service or data source to a specific interface device. Flex Builder will handle database code generation, Gruber said.

Other releases
A final version of Adobe AIR 1.5 was made available at the conference. The version adds more-versatile database encryption handling, a new JavaScript interpreter, a WebKit engine for testing Web applications, and full support for Flash Player 10.

Visual Studio users will also get to join in the Flash fun, thanks to the Ensemble Tofino plug-in for Flex. Gruber said the plug-in makes it easier for .NET developers to put Flex front ends on their applications.

SAP developers also got a prize at the show: NetWeaver applications can now integrate Flash widgets and views. Gruber said Adobe had been “working closely with SAP to enable SAP developers to embed Flash application components into their SAP applications. SAP is releasing a new set of libraries that allow people to drop in components.” Those libraries will now ship as part of NetWeaver.

The Adobe Max conference continues here in San Francisco until Wednesday, Nov. 19.


Related Search Term(s): Flash, Flex, NetWeaver, RIAs, Adobe, SAP


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