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Adobe releases first Apollo code
Offline internet app threatens Microsoft
Elizabeth Montalbano
Adobe will give developers a free preview of its forthcoming runtime code-named Apollo today by releasing an alpha version of the technology on its Adobe Labs site.
The technology, announced last October, allows rich internet applications to run offline, and could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft's .NET, Adobe said.
Developers can download the technology for free from the Adobe Labs site. The release includes a free software development kit that provides a set of command line tools to develop and work with Apollo applications. Web developers can use the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of their choice to build applications for the runtime, Adobe said.
Apollo, like the Flash Player, is a runtime, but one in which applications built using standard internet development technologies - such as HTML, Flash and AJAX - can run offline.
Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect for Adobe, said the alpha release will let developers use Adobe Flash, Adobe's Flex tool and HTML to build applications, but won't have all the functionality of the full release, which is expected in the second half of the year.
"There is still some functionality we want to add to Apollo but we feel it's far enough along so people can build on it and experiment," he said.
The alpha release also will include support for AJ
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Offline internet app threatens Microsoft
Elizabeth Montalbano
Adobe will give developers a free preview of its forthcoming runtime code-named Apollo today by releasing an alpha version of the technology on its Adobe Labs site.
The technology, announced last October, allows rich internet applications to run offline, and could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft's .NET, Adobe said.
Developers can download the technology for free from the Adobe Labs site. The release includes a free software development kit that provides a set of command line tools to develop and work with Apollo applications. Web developers can use the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of their choice to build applications for the runtime, Adobe said.
Apollo, like the Flash Player, is a runtime, but one in which applications built using standard internet development technologies - such as HTML, Flash and AJAX - can run offline.
Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect for Adobe, said the alpha release will let developers use Adobe Flash, Adobe's Flex tool and HTML to build applications, but won't have all the functionality of the full release, which is expected in the second half of the year.
"There is still some functionality we want to add to Apollo but we feel it's far enough along so people can build on it and experiment," he said.
The alpha release also will include support for AJ
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