The AIR Browser API and User Events

The AIR browser API lets web applications detect, install, and launch AIR applications. There are some restrictions on its use, however:

Applications have to opt-in to the detect and launch capability. This is done by specifying in the application’s descriptor.

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Adobe announces AIR 1.0 Download

Adobe today announces AIR 1.0. In their words, here are how it’s important for Developers and for How it’s good for business.

For Developers:

The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. It’s for all developers like AJAX, Adobe Flex Developers and Adobe Flash Developers.

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Guide for Setup BlazeDS: in less than an hour with Amazon EC2

Do you ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two things: setting up Amazon’s EC2 Webservice and getting up and running with BlazeDS.

I had to do quite a bit of hunting due to my inexperience with a few things, which led me to the conclusion that someone else out there might want to benefit from my Googling and bookmarking.

Anyone who is on a Mac should be able to follow along fairly easily, and if you’re on Windows, it shouldn’t be too bad to translate.

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