Prima reactie:
Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license,
Adobe will be releasing the source to the following parts:
* The Flex Compilers (mxmlc, compc, asc) - the command line tools that compile flex code
* Flex command line debugger
* View source utilities
* Automated Testing Framework
* Flex core component library - this includes Apollo components
* Build Scripts
* Web tier compilers
* Flex-Ajax Bridge - already open source, but moving from MIT license to MPL License
Good news indeed.
This will make Flex the de-facto standard for Rich Internet Applications.
Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the Web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e., maintaining the state of the program, the data etc) back on the application server.
RIAs typically:
* run in a Web browser, or do not require software installation
* run locally in a secure environment called a sandbox
* can be "occasionally connected" wandering in and out of hot-spots or from office to office.
articolul complet:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=353
