Really, someone needs to write the Adobe AIR for “Wannabe” Developers - Pocket Guide; or Adobe AIR for Hacks - Pocket Guide. While looking for a clean “AIR” way to distribute a plugin, which uses dll’s, I came across Behaven’s critique of AIR.
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- AIR does not support multi-threading
- AIR does not allow making native calls to the underlying operating system APIs
- AIR does not permit loading native libraries (eg DLLs / C libraries etc)
- Limited Database support (no drivers for diverse databases)
- Limited Networking support (Raw network socket manipulation not available)
- Installer cannot be extended to install ancillary executables or other processes
- Limited to no support for building services / daemons / protocol servers
- Relatively strict sandbox
Good points.. but I still need to get around this…
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