This week Adobe announces plans to release the RTMP specification, we hear rumors of a release date for JavaFX mobile, Google launches the Google AJAX API playground, Silverlight Spy inspects applications, and we look at the use of P2P in the inauguration coverage. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.

FEATURED: Adobe to Release RTMP Specification

This week Adobe announced that they will be open-sourcing the RTMP specification. This specification is what is used for video streams with Adobe's Flash Media Server as well as for data transfer with Adobe's LiveCycle Data Services. This means that Adobe has released yet another specification as a part of the Open Screen Project.

This release opens the door for new media servers that will be able to implement the RTMP specification (in the same way as the Flash Media Server). It will be interesting to see how long before other Flash media servers like Red5 and Wowza implement RTMP.

While this release covers quite a bit, it does not include Adobe's specification for protected streams.

James Ward (Adobe): RTMP Spec To Be Opened

Adobe Press Release

JavaFX 1.1 and JavaFX Mobile Due in February

Steven Chin announced on his blog that both JavaFX 1.1 and the JavaFX Mobile runtime will be released next month. He also states that the JavaFX team members were at the M3DD conference in force demonstrating the JavaFX mobile platform on many different devices.

The addition of the mobile platform has the real possibility of driving many developers to JavaFX.

Stephen Chin: WidgetFX @ M3DD Conference

Deep Linking with Silverlight

Robby Ingebretsen at nerdplusart.com walks through the process of implementing deep-linking for Silverlight applications utilizing the jQuery history wrapper. He provides a sample application and source code for this method.

nerdplusart.com: Deep Linking + Browser History Navigation in Silverlight

Google Ajax API Playground

Ajaxian posted about the Google Ajax API Playground this week. It provides an easy to use interface for working with samples for eight of the Google JavaScript API's. The developer behind the API Playground, Ben Lisbakken, stated:

The AJAX API Playground is currently loaded with over 170 samples for 8 Google JavaScript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries and Earth) that you can edit and run to help you explore what our APIs have to offer. There are also Save and Export features. The save feature allows you to hold onto an edited sample so you can continue working on it later while export lets you modify a sample and export the code to a sticky URL where it will run by itself.

The Google AJAX API Playground is available to try today.

Ajaxian: Having fun in the Ajax Playground

Google Ajax API Playground

Silverlight Visual Debugging with Silverlight Spy

Scott Barnes highlighted Silverlight Spy, a WPF application that will be very useful to Silverlight developers. The application, developed by KoeKoen Zwikstra, provides visual DOM debugging for the application XAML as well as providing statistics on your Silverlight application.

Scott Barnes (Microsoft): Egads... It's a Silverlight Spy!

Silverlight Spy

jSilhouette 0.3 Released - Joins with JFXtras

The jSilhouette library for JavaFX applications reached version 0.3 this week. jSilhouette provides a collection of two dimensional shapes that can be used within your JavaFX application. In addition, the jSilhouette project joined up with the JFXtras project to provide the same features within JFXtras. With this addition, the JFXtras project reached version 0.2 this week as well.

Andres Almiray: jSilhouette 0.3 released

jSilhouette

JFXtras

Using Amazon S3 with Flash or Silverlight

Martin Streicher published an article at the Amazon Webservices Developer Community on utilizing Amazon S3 with Flash/Flex or Silverlight applications. This article covers the basics of setting up the necessary cross domain policy file for both Silverlight and Flash. After the security sandbox issue is covered, Martin walks the reader through the basic process of creating a sample Flex and Silverlight application that both utilize Amazon S3.

Amazon Webservices Developer Community: Using Amazon S3 with Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight

Flex Team Seeking Community Feedback in Online Event

The Adobe Flex team is seeking community input in an online event this week. The post states:

Come speak with the Flex SDK team to voice your interests and concerns. This session will be an opportunity for the community to talk about the Flex SDK itself and discuss our management of the SDK open source project. Please bring your questions and feedback as the session will primarily be led by you (and could be short if there's not a lot of input).

The online event will be delivered through Adobe Connect, and the URL can be found in the post.

Official Flex Team Blog (Adobe): Announcing a Flex Community Feedback Forum

P2P Powers CNN's Inauguration Coverage

This week's inauguration was one of the most watched online events in history, and CNN utilized the Octoshape plug-in (for the Flash Player) to utilize P2P in their online stream. This represents a major shift in realtime media streaming - with the client sharing the bandwidth burden and allowing the event to reach more people with less network infrastructure.

While the inauguration utilized Octoshape, Adobe's P2P technology for the Flash Player, codenamed Stratus, is currently in Beta on Adobe Labs. It is clear that P2P will be a major force in realtime streaming over the next year.

Torrentfreak.com: CNN Uses P2P Plugin for its Live Stream

Adobe Stratus

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