{"id":287,"date":"2008-11-24T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T22:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-11-24T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T22:16:41","slug":"adobe-max-2008-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Adobe MAX 2008 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was invited to speak at Adobe MAX this year on the topic of Building Desktop Applications Powered by Dojo and Adobe AIR<\/a>. The talk summarized the key things we’ve learned at SitePen in adding AIR support to Dojo, as well as working on the Dojo Toolbox<\/a> and the Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR<\/a>. Full slides from the talk are now available:<\/p>\n

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During the talk, I mentioned the frustrations we had with ShrinkSafe and not being able to execute Java code from AIR. After the talk, one of the attendees mentioned the Merapi project<\/a>, which aims to build a bridge from AIR to Java, which looks like an interesting solution to our problem of needing a place to run Rhino within our Builder tool:<\/p>\n

Merapi<\/a><\/p>\n

Another audience member suggested we also look at a Java to ActionScript Converter<\/a>. While likely not ideal for what we are doing, there’s an interesting push around the edges to solve our problem.<\/p>\n

Aptana also showed off support for AIR debugging for Ajax Developers<\/a> within Aptana Studio.<\/p>\n

The talk of MAX so far is Flash Catalyst<\/a>, a new approach to solving the tooling problem for interaction design. At this point, I have mixed feelings about the usefulness and approach of Catalyst.<\/p>\n

At the keynote, there was a focus on a number of the great features of Flash 10, including:<\/p>\n