BlazeDS: Open Sourcing Remoting and Messaging
Today is yet another exciting day for the Flex community and for the world of Rich Internet applications… Adobe is announcing plans to release its Remoting and Messaging technologies under a new open source product named BlazeDS.
The news is probably all over the blogs, but I thought I would summarize the key points:
- The Remoting and Messaging technology previously available only as part of LiveCycle Data Services will now be available for free as a new Open Source product called BlazeDS (under LGPL v3 license).
- The public beta of BlazeDS is available for download here (the GA version is scheduled for early 2008).
- As part of this announcement, the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification is also being published. The spec is available here.
- The JIRA bugbase is available here.
Speaking at FlexCamp in Boston on Friday
I will be delivering the opening keynote at the FlexCamp in Boston (at the Bentley College in Waltham) on Friday. This promises to be a really great event with great speakers from the Flex Engineering Team (Paul Reilly, Peter Farland, Tom Jordahl) and other Flex celebrities (Joe Berkovitz, David Coletta, Thomas Burleson, Matt Woodward). Hope to see you there: http://www.flexcampboston.com/