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September 18, 2006
Adobe and developers... We're getting there
Over the last several months, Adobe has made enormous progress with software developers. In the few short months since the Macromedia acquisition, we have released new products, opened access to SDKs and continued to create communities of open source software.
With today's announcement of Acrobat 8, you may have missed the fact that the Acrobat SDK is now free. Previously available for a $99 membership, the Acrobat 8 SDK will be free (as in beer) when its released. As well, all previous versions of the Acrobat SDK, including the existing Acrobat 7 SDK, are available for free. Email Request_A7SDK@adobe.com for access to the Acobat 7.0.5 SDK or download the other SDKs.
Here are some other key developer activities in the past few months:
We released the Flex 2 product line, and the Flex 2 SDK, which is also free (as in beer).
We released two RIA SDKs: one for PHP developers and one for Ruby on Rails developers. Both of those are free, as in speech. Head to Google Code for the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe or the Ruby on Rails RIA SDK by Adobe. Join the mailing list for either of them (PHP, Ruby), they're fairly active.
Free and open source ActionScript 3 libraries prodiving easy APIs to Flickr, Mappr, Odeo, YouTube and more.
The Flex / Ajax bridge is free and open source, allowing you to connect Flex and Ajax applications.
The Spry framework for Ajax was released on Labs with a BSD license, prodiving an early look at our Ajax framework.
opensource.adobe.com continued to release version of the Adobe Source Libraries, which are available to developers building cross platform applications.
We opened up access to XPAAJ so that ColdFusion and Flex developers can build PDF Forms based on LiveCycle technologies. This removed a $1495 Adobe Enterprise Developer Program membership.
We expanded Adobe developer support to cover both LiveCycle and Flex developers. Now, if you need support for either of those two products, a $1495 membership will give you one year of unlimited email support for Flex or LiveCycle. Get Flex developer support via the Adobe store or purchase LiveCycle developer support via the Adobe store.
I'd say that's not bad for our 9 months or so as a combined company. Did I miss anything?
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Comments
Miss anything? Dunno. I'd like to know where I could find out how in the world Photoshop (for Mac OS X) gets the names for the fonts it sticks in the font menu and other intimate details about that font menu in the various Adobe products. Only the font menu though.
Mike, what can you do with the Acrobat SDK? Create plug-ins for Acrobat?
[Yes, its mainly used for creating plugins for Acrobat. It can also be used to create plugins for Reader, though these plugins need to be approved by Adobe before using them. - Mike]
Great, thanks, we just enjoy it.
I appreciate the actions by Adobe. In very near future I see explosion of RIA with Flex 2 (Similar to what is happening with Rails)
I have only one request for consideration
You have opened XPAAJ and its great but for any basic application artitectrure , following libraries are required
a) Cryptographic Libraries
b) Identity management libraries
it would be great if you open basic libraries related to cryptography and identity management (Digital certificates etc) to be used with flex 2
this will give unique advantage to you that flex will become real enterprise development environment
Regards ,
AJIT
[Those libraries are available only in Adobe LiveCycle Document Security. - Mike]
great post Mike! Thank you for the summary. There were a few developments in mobile as well, but they aren't quite on par with the items you listed. Maybe next year. 8-)
Mike,
We review Adobe's new Acrobat 8 Professional (pre-release)
for performance against PDF Enhancer 3.1. The new Acrobat
features faster operations, smaller PDFs, a new interface,
and the ability to combine different types of files into one PDF.
Acrobat 8 Pro Review
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