Here are the answers to some of the questions I got during and after the Flex 3/ AIR presentation. I simply forwarded them to Kevin Hoyt is one of the AIR spokesman from Adobe. He'll also be at the AIR Bus tour next month. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_____ From: Kevin Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:55 PM To: John Mason; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some AIR questions from the Atl Flash/Flex user group Hi John, * AIR can use RSL's, but probably not the ones cached in the browser (i.e. Flex 3). I don't have any details just yet on how signing will impact the security model. * First is that Adobe is really good at distributing runtimes (i.e. Flash, Acrobat). It stands to reason that we'll use these techniques, along with other alliances to promote the distribution of the runtime. That being said, we're not prepared to disclose all those details just yet. Also note that developers can deploy the runtime with their application, which is distinctly different from the Flash Player. Then there's the lighting installation experience you may have encountered on the samples page on Labs. * Yes, remote objects will work in AIR. There's already some information about this in third-party and Adobe blogs. The main thing is that the application no longer has a server context, so the configuration files on the server for the remote objects needs to be more specific. * Multiple versions of the runtime will be able to co-exist on the same machine. AIR provides the hooks for the application to be notified of new versions of the runtime, and then defers to the application developer to chose what it is that they want to do next. One might assume that we'll make this process as transparent as possible. * Right now the replace/repair dialog is controlled by AIR. Managing trials is something that's not new to desktop software, though we don't have a specific answer at this time. I think this really comes down to how the software is designed. I could see a scenario as an example where the application checks the vendors server for a valid key/subscription when it starts. Other approaches might involve encrypting a key somewhere on the file system. * We chose WebKit in part for it's mobile footprint. That's clearly a market for AIR post 1.0. Outside of that we haven't announced anything to the public. Hope this helps, Kevin On 7/19/07 6:28 PM, "John Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Guys, Last night, at our local Flash/Flex User group (www.affug.com) here in Atlanta, I gave a presentation on the new features in Flex 3 and AIR. I got several questions on AIR that I wanted to pass along so we get the official word from the Adobe crew. We have several people planning on attending the AIR Bus tour when it comes to the ATL. Here are some the that I can remember from last night. -can AIR utilize the same shared RSLs like in Flex? Signed and unsigned? -How is Adobe planning to distribute AIR. Can it be bundle with Adobe PDF and/or Flash player installers (sort of like Google Tools are in some software) so we as AIR developers can know that over time people will more that likely have the Adobe Intregrated Runtime on their computer. -Will AIR support Remote Objects? We have a group of Java developers that wouldn't be using ColdFusion so any info on direct Java to AIR communication would be helpful. -How will AIR update? When AIR 2.0 comes will AIR know about it and advise the use to upgrade? Or if the user tries to run an AIR 2.0 version on AIR 1.0 when it advise them then. We had several people asking about these "in the future" type questions. -If you try to reinstall an AIR app. The dialog box gives you the option for Repair and Remove, is there any functionality that will exposed to us as developers or is this all on the AIR side? The idea here being if an AIR app has a 30-day trial period that someone removes and then reinstalls to avoid paying for the software. -When AIR is available for mobile devices will there be something like an AIR Lite edition. We figured that a lot of the graphical features of a full AIR app would probably burn through a cell phone battery pretty darn fast :) thanks in advance, John Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
