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Cairngorm is the lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR. A collaboration of recognized design patterns, Cairngorm exemplifies and encourages best-practices for RIA development advocated by Adobe Consulting, encourages best-practice leverage of the underlying Flex framework, while making it easier for medium to large teams of software engineers deliver medium to large scale, mission-critical Rich Internet Applications.

Cairngorm Project Home at Adobe Open Source

Great news to the Flex community that Cairngorm is now open-sourced. I can only hope for more great things to come. Having completed my first project using Cairngorm, i would certainly recommend it to anyone who is using Flex in their projects.

Merapi is a bridge between applications written in Java and those running in and created for Adobe AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime™).

Merapi has been designed to run on a user’s machine, along with an Adobe AIR™application and providea direct bridge between the Adobe AIR™ framework and Java, exposing the power and overall calabilities of the user’s operating system, including 3rd party hardware devices.

Introduction to Merapi

Got this from insideRIA.com and the moment i saw Java and AIr, it got me excited. First thing that comes to mind is “No more jfc/swing interfaces”. But visiting their sites, i see more potential in this. Adam Flater has created a demo which shows the interaction between the mac accelerometer and AIR. Check out the demos here!

I signed up for the alpha and hope to play with it asap.