http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/

What does the new Adobe Apollo framework and runtime spell for future Swing development? With soo many people out there who already know flash/adobe products Apollo could capture quite a bit of the market.

This is not to say Apollo will replace enterprise level Swing devlelopment... but maybe it can? Send some simple requests to a smart backend server on the enterprise that does the heavy work and returns results to the view??? (leave comments)

Disclaimer: I have not installed and played with this stuff yet, but have heard and read about it and from what I can tell it’s basically taking some good parts of web technologies and putting them into a nice little Adobe package to run outside a standard browser. (you can apparently use html, javascript, etc.)

It’s designed to be run as a thin client accessing resources over the web, but it looks like you could develop strictly off-line clients as well (not sure) It obviously has the ability to “go off-line” but I’m not sure this is such a wow factor since dojo offline is out now...

The best part about this SDK is that flash is used for UI… yea, you could do the same thing with javascript, applet, but the fact remains: great things have been done with flash, lots of people out there that know how to do things with flash, it just looks good and runs fast.

Proprietary SDK and Runtime both downloadable for free… sound familiar?