Well, it’s finally been announced, Adobe’s Apollo platform is now GA for developers. This has been one of the most highly anticipated platform-agnostic SDKs in a while. The best part about this product is it takes the basis of tools developers already know and understand, like Flash, Flex, HTML, AJAX, and javascript and allows them to design and build super-rich internet apps, for the desktop.
Developers have been playing with alpha/betas for a while and there are some pretty amazing demos out there, already. Ryan Stewart, over at TechCrunch, wrote a full article in February about some of the better Apollo demos. Really neat stuff like Virtual Ubiquity’s Word Processor app, and Intelisea (which is a frontend for controlling a yacht!) - totally built in Flex 2.
This is all still kind of “pre-release” ready stuff, but it’s truly a new paradigm for how applications might be developed in the future. I think we’ll start to see some really interesting software come out of this SDK, and it may actually make Web 2.0 some interesting, rather than just a marketing machine of developer toys without actual functionality.
The software developer kit can be downloaded at adobe.com/go/apollo.
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