Adobe Systems on Wednesday in the US plans to release upgrades to its Flash Player software and Flex development tool for building Web applications.
Flash Player 9 for Windows and Macintosh, available as a free download, has been rewritten to improve the performance and "expressiveness," or interactivity, of Flash applications, said Sydney Sloan, group product marketing manager of Adobe's enterprise and developer business.
Sloan said Adobe will release a Linux version of Flash Player 9 but didn't specify a date.
In tandem with the Flash Player 9 release, Adobe is making its Flex 2 product line available, including a free, entry-level Flex 2 Software Development Kit meant to encourage development of more Flash applications.
The company's goal is to expand the audience of Flex developers from a few thousand to one million developers in the next three to five years, Sloan said.
Flex Builder 2, a commercial tool based on the Eclipse open-source framework, is designed to speed up development with pre-built components and take advantage of ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of Adobe's scripting language.
Adobe also has changed the licensing for Flex Data Services 2, server software for connecting to back-end applications.
thezombieyoda
27/02/2007 11:31 PM
All the talk about flash player 9 being gods gift to software is pretty annoying, ever since I downloaded IE7 & had to install flash 9, I've had nothing but trouble because the flash player refuses to work with IE7. As a consequence of this situation I've had to install Firefox and its version of Flash, yes it works perfectly. I wish I hadn't downloaded IE7 in the first place because IE6 was perfect!!!! I've uninstalled and reinstalled flash 9 numerous times to no avail - what now???
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