Weiqi Gao's Observations - adobe tag

Another Month, Another Messaging Stack Goes Open Source...

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:55:08 GMT

... for those keeping track, here are the previous ones:

And now (this is not new news, but Adam and Ciju haven't heard of it, and so) this:

Dionysios G. Synodinos for InfoQ: Adobe has announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This move that has followed the opening of the AMF spec has been received with varying degrees of enthusiasm from the RIA community.

And it

encapsulated within HTTP requests to traverse firewalls.

Everybody Is Open Sourcing His Messaging Software

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:59:09 GMT

I mentioned Etch 55 days ago. That's Cisco open sourcing their messaging protocol software.

Last week, while I was on vacation, Google released Protocol Buffer, their data interchange format software.

I just learned yesterday, through Bruce Eckel's rant piece about Java, that Adobe has open sourced something called BlazeDS, their Java remoting and web messaging software.

It'll be interesting to see who else would opt for releasing their own messaging software as open source rather than adopting one that's already open sourced.

Flex 3 SDK and Silverlight: Is Java Applet An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Tue, 01 May 2007 18:19:39 GMT

Twelve years after the original Java applet in the browser announcement, the march to a richer GUI runtime in the browser seems to be back on. On the heels of Adobe announcing the plan to open source its Flex 3 SDK, Microsoft entered the race with an open source (BSD-ish licensed) Silverlight, a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Windows Presentation Foundation.

All of a sudden, what didn't work a decade ago is being tauted as something new again. And this time, there are indications that the whole thing might just work.

Of course, Linux is absent from Microsoft's definition of cross-platform (Windows and Mac OS X is all they care about). Fortunately, it looks like the Mono project will do a Silverlight implementation:

Miguel de Icaza: It makes tons of sense for us to start looking at an implementation of Silverlight on Linux with Mono. There is already a XAML loader, it is the perfect excuse to use Antigrain for high-speed graphics and that only leaves the pesky media issue to be solved.

Now, what about Java? Are people so tired of the Java on the client story that we have already lost?

Not necessarily. It is true that Java in the browser has been neglected for many years. However, many of the basic ingredients that make up Flash or Silverlight are already there in Java.

If only someone can produce a stripped down version for the browsers.