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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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