Adobe AIR

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Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Developer	Adobe Systems
Release	Beta
OS	Windows, MacOS
Genre	Runtime
License	Adobe Apollo Runtime EULA
Type	Commercial
Website	AIR Homepage
Documentation	AIR Homepage
Wikipedia	Adobe AIR
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Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), codenamed and originally named Apollo, is a cross-OS runtime environment for building Rich Internet Applications, using Flash, Flex, HTML and AJAX, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

A public preview release of the AIR runtime, then known as Apollo, along with an SDK and extension for developing Apollo applications with the Flex framework, was released on March 19th, 2007. On June 10, 2007, it was renamed to AIR and a public beta of the runtime was launched.

AIR is expected to be released in the second half of 2007.

[edit] Competition

• Microsoft Silverlight also promises to create a framework that blends desktop applications with Internet applications.
• Google Gears is a beta open source technology for creating offline web applications.
• JavaFX from Sun Microsystems

[edit] External links

• Adobe Labs AIR Wiki
• AIR Community Forums
• Flex Developer Center
• OnFlex.org
• Flex Coders Mailing List
• Everything Flex: Apollo Self Updating Applications