Acutally, you may want to take a look at Flex. Adobe open-sourced their compiler, and the SDK to create SWF files. Flex (starting with version 3), is open source,/and/ fully supported by Adobe on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Actually, they are open-sourcing the messaging portion of LiveCycle Data Services, except for the RTMP protocol. They are instead releasing a new protocol, which emulates what RTMP does, except over HTTP(s). http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
This is apart of a larger "openening" of Flash
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Adobe Opens Up AMF Spec
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The announcement of the opening of the AMF protocol (which is a compressed, binary stream of data, used to transfer data from a back-end server to a flash application, no different than AJAX), is actually a subset of Adobe's announcement to open-source the BazeDS project. BazeDS is a Java server that sits as middleware between your Flash/Flex app and your back-end server (Java, PHP, ColdFusion, etc). AMF is a major part of that product.
To all the critics of the Flash player... Take a look at its track record. It is under a meg download, available for most platforms (Win,Mac,Linux,Symbion,etc), and has an excellent security track record (as compared browsers/plugins in the industry). It does not just take a "binary stream" and execute it -- it has a very strict sandbox enviroment that protects both the browser, and the operating system. Heck, you can't even load a Web Service without the called-domain allowing it. And while not opening up the full SWF format, Adobe has open-sourced the Flex Framework, which is used to create SWF files. Take a look at Adobe Labs : http://labs.adobe.com/ for more info on some of Adobe's open-source projects.
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Acutally, you may want to take a look at Flex. Adobe open-sourced their compiler, and the SDK to create SWF files. Flex (starting with version 3), is open source, /and/ fully supported by Adobe on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Actually, they are open-sourcing the messaging portion of LiveCycle Data Services, except for the RTMP protocol. They are instead releasing a new protocol, which emulates what RTMP does, except over HTTP(s). http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
The announcement of the opening of the AMF protocol (which is a compressed, binary stream of data, used to transfer data from a back-end server to a flash application, no different than AJAX), is actually a subset of Adobe's announcement to open-source the BazeDS project. BazeDS is a Java server that sits as middleware between your Flash/Flex app and your back-end server (Java, PHP, ColdFusion, etc). AMF is a major part of that product. To all the critics of the Flash player... Take a look at its track record. It is under a meg download, available for most platforms (Win,Mac,Linux,Symbion,etc), and has an excellent security track record (as compared browsers/plugins in the industry). It does not just take a "binary stream" and execute it -- it has a very strict sandbox enviroment that protects both the browser, and the operating system. Heck, you can't even load a Web Service without the called-domain allowing it. And while not opening up the full SWF format, Adobe has open-sourced the Flex Framework, which is used to create SWF files. Take a look at Adobe Labs : http://labs.adobe.com/ for more info on some of Adobe's open-source projects.