Adobe AIR Development

[philipm]

Hi

Im just about to start a project using adobe AIR/flex for the blackberry playbook, I have a few questions:

1. If I develop an application for the playbook, will the same application be able to run on a desktop? If so will there be any differences?
2. What is the difference between the desktop and mobile libraries? Can I only access a subset of the SDK on the mobile device compared to the desktop?
3. Can I create a playbook application that can call methods to a JAVA back end, located on my server?

Thanks

Phil

[jtegen]

1. Some QNX classes do not work on the desktop.  This includes things like TextInput, QNXApplication, Device, Dialog, etc.  They are dependent on a service that only runs on the OS.

2. It all depends.  You can do a full Mobile app in AIR/Flex and it will run on the simulator.  There are some pros and cons to this approach, but in general it will work OK.

3. AIR/Flex has several classes that can call remote backend systems via a normal HTTP/S, REST, WebServices, RemoteObjects, etc.  It does not know or care that the backend is done in Java.

Hope that helps.

[philipm]

Cheers

[thesmileman]

My app runs fine as a desktop app but I don't use any of the qnx classes

[daniel_wind]

@phillipm

Just for extending jtegen comment, as for item #3 you could use BlazeDS - AMF protocol for enhanced Java - AIR communication

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS

Thanks,