Future Splash
May 1996, FutureSplash Animator was launched by a small software company, FutureWave Software as a modification to their first product, a vector-based drawing program for computers, which they called SmartSketch. Their idea was to use the technology in the then growing World Wide Web and add glamour to the Information Highway. The technology was used in many websites like the MSN, The Simpsons and the Disney. In December of 1996 Macromedia bought FutureWave, and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0. This vector based animation software acquired its true fame with Macromedia and was popularly known as Macromedia Flash. It is now a part of the Adobe Systems which acquired Macromedia on Dec 14, 2005.
Flash Application Development
Flash is no more a vector based animation tool which was used to add movement to the static pages on the web. It has now found a place as the new age tool for developing Rich Internet Applications. RIA are applications which are similar to desktop applications but do not need installation on the system. RIAs transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client while most of the data required in maintaining the application remains on the application server. It was initially believed that the development of RIAs was possible only with Java, but Flash is found to be more stable and do not require additional plug-ins apart from the Flash player.
Research carried out by NPD Online shows that 98% of internet users have some version of flash plug-in. The Flash Player is supported by many browsers, and is distributed, as a free browser plug-in. The Player runs across various versions of the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux* operating systems, on set-top boxes and mobile phones. The Flash Player is essentially a widely-supported virtual machine that executes byte-code found in files following the SWF format. Compared to other plug-ins such as Java, Acrobat Reader, QuickTime or Windows Media Player, the Flash Player has a small install size and fast initialization time. So, Flash Application Development is the right tool for E-Learning.
Flash can be especially useful in delivering mixed content. Flash files can be converted into small file sizes and take less bandwidth to transmit than audio and video files. If the content is purely of one format then JavaScripting may provide better solutions. However, in today’s world of information hungry market, ‘one-stop-shop’ e commerce and e learning web-sites, which have content of various formats, Flash proves to be a step-ahead. With offshore Flash application development, you can make optimum use of the latest professional versions of Flash to develop full-fledged e-learning authoring environment. At the same time, outsourced flash development equips your website with:
· Animated Logos
· Product Showcases
· Interactive Presentations
· Virtual Tours
· Flash Business Card CD Presentations
· Company Presentations
· Web Site Introductions
· Banner Ads
Future of Flash in Offshore Website Development
Remoting is a .NET replacement for DCOM which is a technology that allows objects in different domain to communicate. Here too, Flash remoting has proved to be used more than Java remoting and with better results. As a stand-alone commercial product, Flash Remoting offers a tightly coupled way for Flash clients to invoke or call methods on native server-side objects that are deployed within J2EE, .NET, or ColdFusion servers. Flash Remoting uses a binary protocol, serialized and deserialized data, and encoded remote procedure calls using a binary message format called Action Media Format (AMF). AMF is delivered over HTTP or HTTPS, meaning that, like XML and web service connectivity, a Flash client can integrate with a server-side application over HTTP and secure HTTP, which requires no additional firewall configuration to conventional web page technologies. Support for Flash Remoting is integrated directly into Flash Player, providing the fastest means possible for retrieving data into your application.
As a binary protocol, Flash Remoting performs better than most data integration technologies because data passes over the wire in a compact manner. Developers don't need to get involved in data serialization and deserialization because Flash Remoting transparently maps objects from the client-side, Action Script technology to the server-side technology, whether it's J2EE, Cold Fusion, or .NET. Within the development community, and particularly in the J2EE community where Flash Remoting solutions are currently more likely to exist in large enterprise systems, open-source tools ensure the transparent mapping of value objects and collections of value objects between Flash and Java, using Java Bean-style introspection.
With the increased use of Rich Internet Applications be it in the form of Avatars, or online casinos and bingos, Flash continues to increase its presence to animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. As Flash Application Development takes on the world of Rich Internet Applications, we await the launch of Apollo, in early January, a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Offshore Flash Development helps in creating interactive, interesting, fast paced multimedia presentations, build brand awareness and enhance brand identity, augment customer satisfaction, boost marketing initiatives, showcase ideas in ways never possible before. Now you decide how you want to use the Flash Application Development!
May 1996, FutureSplash Animator was launched by a small software company, FutureWave Software as a modification to their first product, a vector-based drawing program for computers, which they called SmartSketch. Their idea was to use the technology in the then growing World Wide Web and add glamour to the Information Highway. The technology was used in many websites like the MSN, The Simpsons and the Disney. In December of 1996 Macromedia bought FutureWave, and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0. This vector based animation software acquired its true fame with Macromedia and was popularly known as Macromedia Flash. It is now a part of the Adobe Systems which acquired Macromedia on Dec 14, 2005.
Flash Application Development
Flash is no more a vector based animation tool which was used to add movement to the static pages on the web. It has now found a place as the new age tool for developing Rich Internet Applications. RIA are applications which are similar to desktop applications but do not need installation on the system. RIAs transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client while most of the data required in maintaining the application remains on the application server. It was initially believed that the development of RIAs was possible only with Java, but Flash is found to be more stable and do not require additional plug-ins apart from the Flash player.
Research carried out by NPD Online shows that 98% of internet users have some version of flash plug-in. The Flash Player is supported by many browsers, and is distributed, as a free browser plug-in. The Player runs across various versions of the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux* operating systems, on set-top boxes and mobile phones. The Flash Player is essentially a widely-supported virtual machine that executes byte-code found in files following the SWF format. Compared to other plug-ins such as Java, Acrobat Reader, QuickTime or Windows Media Player, the Flash Player has a small install size and fast initialization time. So, Flash Application Development is the right tool for E-Learning.
Flash can be especially useful in delivering mixed content. Flash files can be converted into small file sizes and take less bandwidth to transmit than audio and video files. If the content is purely of one format then JavaScripting may provide better solutions. However, in today’s world of information hungry market, ‘one-stop-shop’ e commerce and e learning web-sites, which have content of various formats, Flash proves to be a step-ahead. With offshore Flash application development, you can make optimum use of the latest professional versions of Flash to develop full-fledged e-learning authoring environment. At the same time, outsourced flash development equips your website with:
· Animated Logos
· Product Showcases
· Interactive Presentations
· Virtual Tours
· Flash Business Card CD Presentations
· Company Presentations
· Web Site Introductions
· Banner Ads
Future of Flash in Offshore Website Development
Remoting is a .NET replacement for DCOM which is a technology that allows objects in different domain to communicate. Here too, Flash remoting has proved to be used more than Java remoting and with better results. As a stand-alone commercial product, Flash Remoting offers a tightly coupled way for Flash clients to invoke or call methods on native server-side objects that are deployed within J2EE, .NET, or ColdFusion servers. Flash Remoting uses a binary protocol, serialized and deserialized data, and encoded remote procedure calls using a binary message format called Action Media Format (AMF). AMF is delivered over HTTP or HTTPS, meaning that, like XML and web service connectivity, a Flash client can integrate with a server-side application over HTTP and secure HTTP, which requires no additional firewall configuration to conventional web page technologies. Support for Flash Remoting is integrated directly into Flash Player, providing the fastest means possible for retrieving data into your application.
As a binary protocol, Flash Remoting performs better than most data integration technologies because data passes over the wire in a compact manner. Developers don't need to get involved in data serialization and deserialization because Flash Remoting transparently maps objects from the client-side, Action Script technology to the server-side technology, whether it's J2EE, Cold Fusion, or .NET. Within the development community, and particularly in the J2EE community where Flash Remoting solutions are currently more likely to exist in large enterprise systems, open-source tools ensure the transparent mapping of value objects and collections of value objects between Flash and Java, using Java Bean-style introspection.
With the increased use of Rich Internet Applications be it in the form of Avatars, or online casinos and bingos, Flash continues to increase its presence to animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. As Flash Application Development takes on the world of Rich Internet Applications, we await the launch of Apollo, in early January, a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Offshore Flash Development helps in creating interactive, interesting, fast paced multimedia presentations, build brand awareness and enhance brand identity, augment customer satisfaction, boost marketing initiatives, showcase ideas in ways never possible before. Now you decide how you want to use the Flash Application Development!
