This week we learned Adobe is opening sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies previously only available as part of their commercial LifeCycle Data Services product. The new open source product is called BlazeDS. They also open sourcing the AMF protocol specification. All three are released under LGPL License.
From the Press Release :
…developers can productively connect rich clients to existing server applications, including Java™ and Adobe ColdFusion® components. For added support, Adobe will offer Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition, a subscription offering that includes certified builds of BlazeDS, access to Adobe enterprise support resources and additional benefits, such as product warranty and infringement indemnity, as well as additional developer support. The commercial version of the product, LiveCycle Data Services ES, includes enterprise class capabilities for building advanced customer engagement applications that require massive messaging scalability, advanced client-server data synchronization, conflict detection/resolution, offline data management services for Adobe AIR applications, and RIA-to-PDF generation…
Source : InfoQ
