Adobe will donate the Flex framework for building Flash and Air applications on Apache. Although the sdk now as an independent project at the foundation for life would go, let Adobe know that it will still Flex will continue to support.
Adobe is going to focus on the development of html5 focus. The technology would be better in the long run for business purposes are suitable, and a multitude of platforms support. Flex would, however, be better suited for desktop applications, writes Adobe in a blog post.
The framework is to Apache as an independent project housed. Except Flex donates Adobe also other components, which BlazeDS is the most important. With the software can data between a Flex application and the Java backend to be sent. In addition, Adobe’s Falcon JS compiler under an open source license from. This would mean that existing Flex apps can be ported to html.
The source code of Flex in 2008 was released already. Since that time, developers have mainly bugs uncovered. With the donation to the Apache foundation, the community reportedly also new features coming up. That is not to say that Adobe finally say goodbye to the project. The company promises years of contributions, to provide to the codebase. Exactly how that is going to take place, is still unclear. In the coming weeks, makes Adobe more is known about the precise sequel.