Adobe AIR

Adobe integrated runtime is a cross-platform environment for building rich internet application using Adobe flash, Adobe flex , HTML and AJAX that can be deployed as a desktop application. This environment helps the developers to use their web development skills, tools and codes to develop a application that runs without the support of a browser.

Important Dates:
Air, once called as Apollo gave extension for developing application with the flex framework on March 19, 2007.
A stable Linux version of AIR was released on October 1, 2007.
Adobe AIR 1.1 was released on June 16, 2008.

Both the deployment paradigms provide advantage as well as disadvantage. Say, for a rich internet application developed in browser doesn't need any installation, but the application that is developed using flex must be downloaded, checked for certificate and finally installed in the desktop. In the same way a the user can get lots of freedom in accessing the file in his local system using the application developed in AIR since it s in local, on the other hand a browser application has got lots of restriction and security issues in accessing and storing data in the local.



AIR applications can operate offline, and then activate further functionality or upload data when an active Internet connection becomes available.
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