• We will be releasing a set of command line tools for Apollo that will make it easy for developers to do Apollo application packaging and development via their favorite IDE or editor. You may need to write additional code to take advantage of Apollo specific APIs. File I/O, Online / Offline, Windowing, Clipboard, System Drag and Drop, Full Network API support, Local Storage / Settings

• The Apollo APIs are only exposed to Flash content via ActionScript 3 / AVM2, and thus Flash 8 / AVM1 SWFs will be able to run, but they will not have direct access to the Apollo APIs.

• Provide a more standardized and consistent security model for Apollo applications and users.

• We will be implementing an Inter-Application Communication (IAC) protocol to make it easy for Apollo applications to communicate with each other.

• Download from the Adobe website
• Distributed with Apollo applications (in case the user does not have Apollo installed).

• It will be possible to write Database drivers in ActionScript (leveraging binary or XML sockets), which would allow Apollo applications to communicate directly with a database (both local and remote).

The other thing that Flex Data Services provide is the data management facility, which is a declarative persistence framework that lets you serialize graphs of objects to the client and then it detects changes automatically as you modify those objects, builds up a set of change lists and when you commit your changes, those changes are sent to the server where we do conflict detection. If there are no conflicts and the server can accept the changes and it pushes the data out to the other clients, which are looking at the same data sets. So, this kind of eliminates a lot of glue code that you need when building kind of thick client-based applications. In Flex we actually support two protocols. There is HTTP and RTMP. The HTTP of course now is a one-way protocol where the client always initiates the call so for that we do use a polling mechanism. With RTMP, it’s a protocol that has been used by the Flash Player for quite a while to do audio, video and data synchronization and it provides a persistent socket that the client keeps open with the server, to analyze the server it just naturally push messages to the client in real time. Flex Data Services provides an abstraction layer, so the client does not really need to know, which protocol is he using and it actually fails over from one to the other, so that technique actually makes it easy to build applications that support push even when the user might be applying a firewall and can’t use RTMP. Flex does support clustering technology very well and when you are starting to deal with client-to-client connectivity, the issues involved include being able to have one client connected to one cluster server be able to push messages to clients that are connected to other servers. So we have technology so that last cluster remembers to exchange messages and push them out to the peers. With the data management services there are also challenges in being able to detect what clients are asked first. Caching certain versions of the data is when one client changes the data, the other clients that are connected to other servers also see those changes and we also support that well. So, the Flex technology should scale pretty well even for the the largest enterprise applications.

1. GPS – example – apply 2. Track, the real track of GPS receiver records 3. Altitude, altitude chart of records 4. Position, you could check latitude/longitude of all points in the world. 5. Your own GPS receiver? Get your track out, then copy & paste.

The features of this release include the ECMAScript Edition 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2), which dramatically exceeds the performance of previous players. Flash Player 9 is expected to ship with the Flex 2.0 launch this summer. We expect to release an ActionScript 3.0 preview release (public alpha) of the next release of the Flash authoring tool, code-named “BLAZE”, on Adobe Labs around the time of the Flash Player 9 launch.

• The Creative Solutions Business Unit Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe InDesign®, Macromedia Dreamweaver®, Macromedia Flash®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and Adobe After Effects®
• The Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit Adobe LiveCycleâ„¢ and the Macromedia Flexâ„¢ . David Mendels (former MM executive VP/GM)
• The Knowledge Worker Solutions Business Unit Adobe Acrobat® and Macromedia Breeze® Tom Hale (former MM SVP/GM)
• The Mobile and Device Solutions Business Unit Macromedia Flash Liteâ„¢ and Macromedia FlashCastâ„¢. Al Ramadan (former MM EVP/GM of mobile and devices)
• The Platform Business Unit Adobe’s PDF and Flash-based technology platforms as standards to any desktop or device. Kevin Lynch (formerMM EVP and chief software architect)
• The Print and Classic Publishing Solutions Business Unit Adobe FrameMaker®, Adobe PageMaker®, Macromedia Contributeâ„¢, and Macromedia Captivateâ„¢.

Sep28-29 night. I found when create a new SO’s data have to initial with empty [] first. If not, no attributes could be assigned values.

Sep 29. The default SO file is in binary but can read easily with binary editor, as if ascii text. Let me try secure mode SO.

” NOTE: The restrictions that are discussed in this section do not affect SWF files that are on the Internet.”

Yes, it will mostly effect developer’s feeling but not end user I think. Developers have to test in local, it seems not so convenience to shut the door inside and outside.

One thing that some helps, but not too much on this, ” If you create the file in the Flash authoring environment (for example, when you select Control > Test Movie), your file is trusted because it is in a test environment. ” Though if it’s some big project, it almost useless.

So the question is, could developers access both local(inside of your OS file system) and network(outside)?

Fortunately but one more step, it could.

“This level of permission can be granted by the user or Flash developer in the following ways:

* Using the Global Security Settings panel in the Settings Manager.

* Using a global configuration file. ”

The first one is not our selection, so latter “A configuration file can be installed with the SWF file, created by a Flash developer, or added by an administrator (for all users or the current user) or any Flash developer (for the current user).”

Oooops, here it is.

The FlashAuthor.cfg file is located in the following approximate directories(work only during test movie with Flash 8 professional):

Windows boot disk / Documents and Settings / Application / Data / Macromedia Flash Player/ #Security

LocalSecurityPrompt=Author

In the #Security directory on your hard disk, you can create a FlashPlayerTrust directory where you can store unique configuration files. Inside these files, you can specify directories or applications to trust on your hard disk. This directory does not require administrative access, so users without administrative permissions can set permissions for SWF files and test applications.

If you create applications that install on an end user’s hard disk, you might need to create a configuration file in FlashPlayerTrust to specify a trusted directory for your application. You can create configuration files inside the FlashPlayerTrust directory that specify the location of the trusted application.

Windows boot disk / Documents and Settings / Application

Data / Macromedia Flash Player/#SecurityFlashPlayerTrust

I create a configuration file such as: myDevelopDir.cfg

Just add directories you want, for example:

e:flashmyflashdevelop

If you use e:flash, all swf files including sub-directories under it will be ‘localTrusted’.

To test SWFs communicate both with local and Internet, set publish as ‘network only’. Then everything ok!

TIP: If you do not want to use configuration files, you could publish your Flash applications to a separate, testing server instead of providing clients or other developers SWF files to run on their local hard disks.

this.attachMovie("ball","ball_mc",1);
var myDropFilter = new flash.filters.DropShadowFilter();
var myFilters:Array = ball_mc.filters;
myFilters.push(myDropFilter);
ball_mc.filters = myFilters;
ball_mc._x = 150;
ball_mc._y =150;

this.attachMovie("ball","ball_mc",1);
var blurX:Number = 30;
var blurY:Number = 30;
var quality:Number = 3;
var myBlurFilter = new flash.filters.BlurFilter(blurX, blurY, quality);
var myFilters:Array = ball_mc.filters;
myFilters.push(myBlurFilter);
ball_mc.filters = myFilters;
ball_mc._x = 150;
ball_mc._y =150;