Adobe Announces Open Source Technologies for Enterprise RIAs

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) announced plans to release source code for its remoting and messaging technologies under a new open source product named BlazeDS, to help developers connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences. Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, the technologies included in BlazeDS, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, are being contributed to open source under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3). Also, developers can productively connect rich clients to existing server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components. The commercial version of the product, LiveCycle Data Services ES, includes enterprise class capabilities for building advanced customer engagement applications that require massive messaging scalability, advanced client-server data synchronization, conflict detection/resolution, offline data management services for Adobe AIR applications, and RIA-to-PDF generation. BlazeDS and the AMF binary data protocol specification are supported by Adobe Flash Player. Adobe will offer annual subscriptions for Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition, which includes access to trusted, certified builds, patches, enterprise support and additional benefits such as product warranty and infringement indemnity. Subscription pricing will be announced at the time of general release of BlazeDS under the LGPL v3, currently scheduled for early 2008. Additionally, new beta versions of Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex Builder 3 and Adobe Flex 3 are now available. The public beta versions are available immediately as free downloads from http://labs.adobe.com