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November 7, 2006
Open Source Developers and Adobe
In case you missed it, Adobe and the Mozilla Foundation have teamed up. Adobe will be contributing source code for the ActionScript virtual machine, via a project to be hosted at Mozilla. Mozilla's CTO, Brendan Eich, says that this is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception. You can check out the code now via CVS from mozilla/source/js/tarmarin on lxr.mozilla.org.
From a developer point of view, this means that you can build applications for Flash Player 9 that will use the same code structure as applications for Mozilla 2. No longer will you need to learn two seperate languages.
Many people are saying that this is the largest contribution of open source software from Adobe as well. In fact, Adobe has many open source projects that are run by Adobe. Here's a partial list of them:
Adobe Source Libraries at http://opensource.adobe.com (currently down, but you can get it from Google's Cache.
ActionScript 3 Libraries - We will be adding the eBay library, which is the basis of the Apollo application shown at the MAX conference, to this set of libraries as well.
Adobe Spry Framework - The Spry framework for Ajax allowes web developers to add Ajax functionality to their web pages.
Adobe Flex / Ajax Bridge - Used to connect your Flex application to JavaScript, and vice versa. Allows you to build sites similar to Google Finance.
Adobe PDF has been an open specification for a long time. While the code to Adobe Reader is not open source, the open format has allowed many developers to build PDF creation and reader tools.
technorati tags:opensource, flex, spry, fabridge, pdf, adobe
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