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Source: PCWorld

Adobe has submitted the code for its Flash-based Flex framework to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to be managed as an independent project.

While the company pledged its continued support for Flex — along with its underlying Flash technology — Adobe also suggested that Web application developers in the future would be using HTML5 rather than Flash.

Flex is an SDK (Software Development Kit) that includes a compiler and a number of libraries that can be used to build cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that run on Adobe Flash. In 2008, the company placed the SDK under an open-source license.

The ASF will now vote on whether to take on Adobe Flex. The open-source software body has not commented on if it will agree to manage the technology’s development. If it does, however, it may not be long before Flex becomes an Apache project. In 2010, when Google submitted Wave as a potential project, ASF approved the technology within a month

Along with Flex, Adobe has also submitted a number of other related components to ASF, most notably BlazeDS, a messaging system for transferring data between a Flex application and a back-end Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) server. It also submitted an experimental Flash compiler, called Falcon, and assorted testing tools.

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