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Building Applications for Web 2.0

Charles BihisUniversity of British Columbia

Feb 13th, 2007

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Welcome!

Thanks for coming

What is Adobe Flex?

What is Adobe Apollo?

What cool stuff can I build with Flex and Apollo?

Show me

Q & A

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Adobe Flash Player

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Strength of the Flash Platform

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Strength of the Flash Platform

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Strength of the Flash Platform

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Strength of the Flash Platform

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Strength of the Flash Platform

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Strength of the Flash Platform

Rich Media

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Adobe Flex 2

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Introducing Flex

Platform for building Rich Internet Application

Eclipse based IDE

Rooted in the Flash environment

Flash Player

Flex SDKDevelopment Environment

Runtime Environment

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Eclipse-based IDE

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Demo

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Adobe Apollo

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What is “Apollo”?

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“Apollo” Applications from a User’s Perspective

Installed from web browser or file system

Launched like any desktop application

Chrome completely controlled by application

Integrated with usual desktop functionality

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Demo

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Adobe Labs

Get Started Today!

http://labs.adobe.com

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Q & A

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