Mrinal twittered today about a project he’s been working on and it took me on a pretty cool tour of what’s going on with SAP, NetWeaver, and Flash. NetWeaver 7.0 supports something called “Flash Islands“, which are basically SWF files inside of Web Dynpro interfaces, which is the user interface for SAP’s NetWeaver platform. Using ExternalInterface interface, you can pass data from Web Dynpro and a Flex/Flash application.

What’s cool is to see the most cutting edge parts of the Flash Platform being used in an enterprise setting like SAP NetWeaver. Mrinal has an example of Ribbit working, letting you make phone calls from NetWeaver, and there is an example of Cocomo collaboration by Mogens Enevoldsen, which shows off building a social network in SAP.

2009 is going to be a gigantic year for real-time data and collaboration. This is something that, arguably, the Flash Platform does better than anyone else, so I think it’s going to be an exciting year for Flex developers as they get to show real world examples of things that most people are just starting to think about.