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Open Source and Adobe AIR

August 6th, 2007 by Ryan Stewart

I attended OSCON and because we’ve open sourced Flex, that was the focus for most of the conversations. But I also talked to people about Adobe AIR and a lot of them seemed surprised at just how closely Adobe AIR is tied to open source. The runtime itself isn’t open source, but we’re making use of a lot of open source projects and contributing to some of those projects:

    • -Tamarin - this is the virtual machine in the Flash Player that we open sourced under the Mozilla tri license.
    • -Webkit - We’re using Webkit as our HTML renderer in Adobe AIR and we’re hoping to contribute back to the project as we fix and implement things.
    • -Flex - While not technically a part of Adobe AIR, it’s one of the ways to build AIR applications and like Ajax, it’s an open source technology.

Adobe AIR is all about appealing to web developers. AIR is intended to let you take your web development skills and build engaging desktop experiences. If you want to do that using as many open source, standards-based technologies as possible, Adobe AIR fills the need with Webkit and our HTML/Ajax stack. We’re always looking for open source feedback, so feel free to leave a comment or drop me an email.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 3:11 pm and is filed under Adobe AIR, OSCON07.

5 Responses to “Open Source and Adobe AIR”

  1. On August 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pm, Andrew Wooldridge wrote:

    You keep calling it Adobe AIR. Wouldn’t that be like calling it Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime?

  2. On May 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 am, Abiye wrote:

    Hey all, I just sent a message to people in the know about upgrade pricing options. I’ll report back as soon as I have something.

  3. On July 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am, gifts wrote:

    I’m actually impressed with the amount of opensource involved with AIR, as well as the general feel and attitude towards opensource from Adobe. It’s really encouraging to see Adobe stay ahead of the pack and look for a way to bring opensource and traditional models of business together in a way that benefits all. I like Adobe’s current take on things. Although I still prefer true Opensource, it’s good to see a prolific company like Adobe make such fantastic decisions and support opensource in such a great way.

  4. On July 28th, 2008 at 7:00 am, Brent wrote:

    Hello, are the AIR only classes, like flash.filesystem.File open source? where might one find them if they are?
    Thanks

  5. On August 12th, 2008 at 4:42 am, oil paintings from photos wrote:

    Hi there Brent! I think the post only mentioned about how Adobe AIR is close to open source. It may not mean that it is an open source.

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