Adobe releases source code for BlazeDS

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Adobe Systems Incorporated has released the source code for its remoting and messaging technologies BlazeDS, through BlazeDS developers can connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications.

The new open source product also enables developers to connect rich clients to existing server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components. Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, the technologies included in BlazeDS, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, are being contributed to open source under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3), and are available immediately as public betas on Adobe Labs.

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services will be available as Community Edition, a subscription offering that has certified builds of BlazeDS, access to Adobe enterprise support resources and additional benefits.

The commercial version - LiveCycle Data Services ES – can build advanced customer engagement applications that require massive messaging scalability, advanced client-server data synchronization, conflict detection/resolution, offline data management services for Adobe AIR applications, and RIA-to-PDF generation.

“The combination of BlazeDS with Flex and Adobe AIR helps reduce the time it takes for developers to build responsive and highly innovative RIAs that deliver rich, dynamic, branded content and applications across all major browsers and operating systems,” said David Mendels, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit, Adobe. Subscription pricing will be announced at the time of general release of BlazeDS under the LGPL v3, currently scheduled for early 2008.

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