September 2007

You may have heard by now, but we announced our new "Share" service this week at MAX. It’s currently in beta, but Share is a free web-based service that allows you to easily store, manage, and share your PDFs and other documents. We are also making our web services APIs available. Using these APIs, developers can easily integrate document-based workflows with Share, either via a mashup or new application, and let users collaborate on their documents.

Share uses a simple REST-based protocol, so any development environment able to work with HTTP requests can access the API. Libraries are provided to simplify development in major languages, such as Java and Actionscript 3.

The current set of APIs includes uploading documents, browsing the content repository, sharing documents, and converting documents such as PDFs into an interactive SWF. This is only the beginning; we’ll be adding additional calls, so stay tuned for more. Learn more about our APIs at our Labs API page, and join our discussion forum and tell us what you think – what you like and don’t like about our APIs, etc.

One of the biggest problems in establishing "collaboration" is figuring out how to get started. Introductions are in order..

Yeah, so, it's a blog. We're representing a team inside Adobe tasked with trying to figure out the answers to some pretty interesting problems; mostly, how can we make it easier for developers to build "collaboration-oriented" applications? And we wanted to start sharing what we're thinking with you. Soon. But, cagey marketers that we are, we need to leave you in suspense until MAX.

If you are attending MAX 2007 in Chicago, come learn more about Adobe's newly announced "collaboration services" initiatives. Briefly, we'll be unveiling some new Adobe hosted web services - with APIs around document-based and real-time collaboration. For developers, we think it's going to be a powerful way to create a new breed of mashups and applications.

MAX Session Details

Ok, I should stop before I risk putting the word "collaboration" in quotation marks again. More to come post MAX – stay tuned to learn about upcoming announcements...