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.

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