Apollo
What is Apollo?
Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s).
HERE is a document containing more detail – a presentation by Mike Chambers of Adobe Systems
You can also read the Apollo FAQ from Adobe Labs.
An article in PDFZone quotes PDF consultant and former Acrobat team member Leonard Rosenthol:
“I think there’s a current class of applications that currently are Web-hosted—anything from Google Maps to Yahoo Finance to a totally Flash-based e-mail client I’ve seen, with all the functionality of Outlook—those are all hosted in your Web browser, and they are restricted by it,” Rosenthol said. “But if you could take all those same capabilities and have it act just like the real Outlook and make it double-clickable on the desktop, it’s a better end-user experience. But it [appeals] only to a certain class of developers.”
If you’re interested, you can watch a 40 minute session from the 2006 Adobe Max developer conference where Chris Brichford (an Engineer on the Apollo team) talks about how you will be able to leverage HTML and JavaScript within Apollo (both as a top level application language and within Flash)
Apollo is targeted for a pre-release version on Adobe Labs in early 2007 and Adobe is aiming for the first half of 2007 for a full-release.
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