{"id":135,"date":"2006-11-10T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-11-10T08:51:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:51:01","slug":"adobe-embedded-vm-in-mozilla-project-tamarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/adobe-embedded-vm-in-mozilla-project-tamarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe: Embedded VM in Mozilla — Project Tamarin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week at ECM West<\/a>, Adobe<\/a>‘s Tom Malloy<\/a>, Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect of Advanced Technology Labs, gave a General Session speech with demonstrations about Adobe’s view of the next generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA<\/a>s).\u00a0 As you might expect, Adobe’s vision consists of the marriage of Adobe’s proprietary, but universally used, PDF and Flash technologies.<\/p>\n

Adobe has made\u00a0a fairly compelling story.\u00a0 Flash technology became part of the Adobe technology product family after the acquisition<\/a> of MacroMedia by Adobe last year.\u00a0 Over the years, Flash has become pervasive on the Internet and become the preferred\u00a0delivery format for animation and video.\u00a0 Adoption of the technology by sites like YouTube have secured the dominance of the Flash technology.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Adobe’s companion and home-grown technology, PDF, rivals Microsoft WORD as the most common file format for storing and transmitting documents, and\u00a0PDF has the advantage of being truly platform independent.\u00a0 Although the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine is a bit bloated, it’s fidelity of page rendering\u00a0is unsurpassed.<\/p>\n

The Adobe plan is to meld HTML + Flash + PDF into light-weight visually-rich and responsive web-based applications.\u00a0 But the RIAs can also be delivered and treated as documents.\u00a0 Send them by email or download them from the net, but the content can be document-like internet-aware highly-interactive documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Adobe demonstration gave examples from the mortgage industry that showed\u00a0how graphics, text and forms processing could be merged and populated with back-end data from the internet, creating highly interactive next-generation ‘documents’.\u00a0The definition of application and document begin to blur.<\/p>\n

Adobe’s\u00a0goal is to turn out developer and content creator tools that will help them recruit application creators for building Web 2.0-style applications.\u00a0 One example is FLEX-2<\/a>, Adobe’s IDE and environment for building RIA browser-based internet applications.<\/p>\n

Initial reviews of Flex have been good, but deployment costs can become expensive ($20,000 per CPU<\/a> plus maintenance and services).\u00a0 The costs and proprietary nature of the Adobe technology have led some to seek out lower cost alternatives, like OpenLaszlo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Adobe is trying to reverse the image of being a closed technology company.\u00a0 On the same day of Malloy’s talk, Adobe announced that the Adobe VM was to be embedded in the next version of Mozilla.\u00a0 Adobe has contributed the source code for its ActionScript Virtual Machine and its Just in Time compiler to the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation.\u00a0 This is code that was acquired by Adobe in the purchase of MacroMedia.<\/p>\n

Mozilla has created a new project for the Adobe VM called the Tamarin<\/a> Project, named after a species of tiny arboreal monkeys.\u00a0 Adobe developers will continue to work on and contribute to the project.\u00a0 But without parallel support in Microsoft’s IE, it isn’t clear how useful it will be.<\/p>\n

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This week at ECM West, Adobe‘s Tom Malloy, Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect of Advanced Technology Labs, gave a General Session speech with demonstrations about Adobe’s view of the next generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).\u00a0 As you…<\/span><\/p>\n

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