Adobe Advances Web Application Development and Simplifies Social Network Integration

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate
availability of Adobe°
Flash° Builder™ 4 and ColdFusion°
Builder™ software, next generation Flash Platform tooling for
building multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs). In addition,
Adobe added a new Social
service to the recently introduced Adobe° Flash° Platform Services.
The Social service streamlines integration between Web
applications and 14 leading social networks using Facebook
Connect, Sign-in with Twitter, MySpaceID and LinkedIn.
“I
rely on consistent, virtually perfect code to ensure that our
applications run smoothly and predictably. With the ability to debug,
test, and manage code, Adobe ColdFusion Builder gives us the tools we
need to create outstanding code and easily track the steps we’ve taken
to get there.”
Flash Builder 4 accelerates rich Internet application development
Flash Builder 4 (formerly Adobe Flex° Builder™) is a
professional-grade Eclipse based development tool for rapidly building
multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) and content using the
open source Flex framework. Developers can build more intuitive Web
applications that enable customers, partners, and employees to better
understand and use data, leading to increased levels of productivity,
satisfaction and effectiveness.
Flash Builder 4 accelerates development and testing of RIAs and
content, providing new and improved coding and testing capabilities,
while allowing designers and developers to more efficiently
collaborate using new integrated workflows with Adobe° Creative Suite°.
Flash Builder 4 enables enhanced integration with a variety of data
back ends (including PHP, ColdFusion, Java and Adobe° LiveCycle°) and
easy introspection and consumption of REST and SOAP based services.
For detailed information, please go to: www.adobe.com/go/flashbuilder4.
Open source Flex 4 enables new levels of expressiveness
The updated open source Flex 4 framework, also now available, includes
a new component architecture for RIAs providing complete separation of
appearance and functionality, enabling each to be changed
independently without affecting the other.
The new skinning and component architecture, code-named Spark, builds
on top of the existing MX architecture, providing a much more
efficient mechanism for developers and designers to work together to
control the appearance of their Flex applications.
For detailed information, please go to: www.adobe.com/go/flashbuilder4.
Easily integrate with social networks
In collaboration with Gigya,
the new Adobe Flash Platform Services Social service enables
developers to rapidly integrate applications created with Flash
Builder and Adobe° Flash° Professional with social networks.
Developers no longer need to do the work of integrating with each
separate, constantly changing social network service API to provide
users access to multi networks. A single Flash Platform Services layer
does the heavy lifting across multiple social networks. Additionally,
the Social service will monitor each social network site to
ensure changes to APIs do not break applications.
For detailed information, please go to www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/services/social.
Flash Platform speeds Web innovation across desktops and devices
Today’s availability of Flash Builder 4 comes in advance of the much
anticipated release of Flash Player 10.1, expected in the first half
of 2010.
Currently available in beta,
Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe° AIR° 2 software enable designers and
developers to use the same code, assets, frameworks, tools and
services to create the most expressive applications, content and video
for the browser and the desktop today, as well as mobile platforms in
the future.
ColdFusion Builder advances ColdFusion application development
ColdFusion Builder is a new Eclipse-based integrated development
environment (IDE) for rapidly and efficiently building ColdFusion
applications and is integrated with Flash Builder 4 for fast, easy RIA
development.
ColdFusion Builder provides a unified, customizable and extensible
development environment to code applications, manage servers and
deploy projects.
For detailed information on the new features and to download, please
visit: www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion.
Quotes
David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Adobe Platform
Business Unit
“Companies are under extraordinary pressure to
keep their competitive edge. The Flash Platform helps companies deploy
business-critical applications to a wide audience, while ColdFusion
Builder and Flash Builder truly accelerate the development process. We
look forward to seeing what our talented developer community creates
with these latest additions in our developer ecosystem.”
Chris Griffith, staff engineer, Qualcomm
Adobe Flash
Builder 4 and the Flex framework have become invaluable in Qualcomms
user experience efforts. With the release of Flash Builder 4, it has
enabled us to build projects – from mobile to Web to the desktop –
faster and in a cleaner, more concise fashion. As a result, our team
can now explore new ideas without the previous overhead of recoding
user interface elements.
Emmanuel Laborde, director of engineering, SAP
“When our
developers work with Flex, they can take a more creative, visual
approach to building applications, and it shows in quality and
interactivity of the end product.”
Jaanus Kase, Master’s in human-computer interaction program,
Carnegie Mellon University
“I’ve worked in other environments
like HTML and JavaScript, but Adobe Flex literally takes half the time
to create each iteration. With Flex, I can focus on delivering an
engaging user experience, versus spending non-productive time
debugging, working on speed optimizations, or worrying about browser
compatibility issues.”
Jason Ervin, Flex and Flash developer, Spiceworks
“Creating
the UI components with the new skinning architecture in Adobe Flash
Builder is significantly faster – making my job much easier and less
stressful – and lets us produce more creative, compelling interfaces.”
Ray Blaak, chief technology officer, Ensemble
“We use
Flash Builder 4 daily for basic ActionScript° code development. We
like the improvements related to productivity, especially with regards
to code navigation and the editing experience.
Andy Gutmans, chief executive officer and co-founder, Zend
Technologies
We are excited to see Adobe continue to invest
in making RIA development for PHP developers faster and easier.
Including the Zend framework with Flash Builder 4 makes it even easier
for PHP developers to add expressive UI to enterprise Web
applications.
Ariel Kelman, vice president, Force.com product marketing,
salesforce.com
“Our customers have built nearly 150,000
business applications on the Force.com enterprise cloud computing
platform. The new innovations in Flash Builder 4 and the Flash
Platform will help customers extend and enhance their Salesforce CRM
and custom Force.com apps. This new release helps salesforce.com give
developers the tools and freedom they need to create compelling
enterprise cloud applications that match the best user experiences of
the consumer Web.”
Gadi Rozmaryn, senior Web applications developer, Hughes
“I
rely on consistent, virtually perfect code to ensure that our
applications run smoothly and predictably. With the ability to debug,
test, and manage code, Adobe ColdFusion Builder gives us the tools we
need to create outstanding code and easily track the steps we’ve taken
to get there.”
James Brown, development director, Wrecking Ball Media Group
“ColdFusion
Builder is fast and intuitive. With features like line-by-line
debugging, code introspection, and code highlighting, we can save
hours that would otherwise be spent saving files, checking them back
in, and refreshing them. ColdFusion Builder is a powerful IDE that
brings ColdFusion 9 even more solidly to the forefront of
enterprise-level programming languages.”
David A. Yovanno, chief executive officer, Gigya
“We are
pleased to partner with Adobe to provide technology for the Adobe
Flash Platform Services Social Service. With the recent growth in
referred traffic coming from social networks, this new service will
help developers more easily create innovative applications that can
reach larger audiences. Our customers experience increases in
registration rates, social referred traffic and time spent by
establishing and optimizing connections to the social networks.”
About the Adobe Flash Platform
The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading Web design and development
platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that
run consistently across operating systems and devices and reach over 98
percent of Internet-enabled desktops. Flash Player 10 was installed on
more than 93 percent of computers in just the first ten months since its
release. According to comScore Media Metrix°, approximately 75 percent
of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Adobe Flash
technology, making it the No. 1 format for video on the Web.
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Pricing and Availability
Flash Builder 4 Standard US$249, Flash Builder 4 Premium US$699
ColdFusion Builder US$299
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