Comments on: Observations from MAX 2006

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:31:06 +0000

thank you for this document!! this is important for me!

By: FlexLive.net » What would you do with $100 million…

FlexLive.net » What would you do with $100 million… — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:30:02 +0000

[...] In Ryan’s recent MAX update, he mentioned Adobe is putting up $100,000,000 in venture capital to fuel the Apollo echo system. I didn’t take it seriously until I saw this confirmation article on CNET. Although I still believe that reliance on venture capital is not healthy for startups, nevertheless, I think it would be a fun exercise to brainstorm for some cool Apollo ideas. I’m going to throw a few of mine up here. Feel free to leave a comment or follow up with your cool ideas [...]

By: Campbell

Campbell — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:17:40 +0000

Or if it was a more general interface for plugins we could use all sorts of lanuages. I dont know Java all that well but I think a good point will be to open access to exisiting “3rd party libraries” then alot of the hard work is done…maybe a general wrapper to form a plugin around the library.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:32:26 +0000

That’s an interesting feature idea Zee. You should submit a request for it if you haven’t. Since Java is supposed to be cross platform, that would be more likely to be included than native Windows DLL support (which I’ve seen a lot of people requesting).

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:45:28 +0000

The number one feature I want to see in Apollo is the ability to invoke java jars on the client side. When I write desktop apps with either java or C#, most of the heavy lifting is done with the 3rd party libs. For flex to break into the desktop, it needs a lot of momentum from the community to provide useful 3rd party libraries for flex, but it takes time for this ecosystem to develop. In the meantime, the WPF developer already have native access to all the .NET libraries, putting Apollo developers in a bit of disadvantage. In my opinion, giving Apollo developers native access to jar libs would be one way to level the field.