Comments on: Salesforce.com AIR Application

By: Dave Johnson » Blog Archive » Ajax Alive and Kicking

Dave Johnson » Blog Archive » Ajax Alive and Kicking — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:27:10 +0000

[...] Flex has a hard time fitting into conventional – and I dare say preferred – web development processes, which will keep it on the fringe for some time to come. The process that Flash and now Flex developers go through when building an application is that they have Flex builder to design their application and maybe write some ActionScript to access some web service endpoints on a server somewhere. Then the developer needs to build their web service endpoints using a different tool (likely Eclipse or Visual Studio). Everything is separated between the client and server only connected by the web service endpoints yet the client side development is still not strictly for a designer but a designer and an engineer need to work on the Flex application. One interesting thing about this approach to development is that it fits in well with the enterprise SOA sort of idea; the Flex app is only a consumer of enterprise services and does nothing on the server. This is one reason that Flex is becoming popular in applications for SAP and Salesforce I think. However, hat is not to say that Ajax has no place in enterprise applications. The one thing that I do really like about Flex development is the declarative approach which few Ajax frameworks have done, I digress. [...]

By: Alexei@Nitobi » Blog Archive » Rockin’ out at MAX ‘07

Alexei@Nitobi » Blog Archive » Rockin’ out at MAX ‘07 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:15:24 +0000

[...] I’m here in Chicago attending MAX ‘07 with Andre. We were surprised and thrilled today to see the Nitobi Salesforce.com AIR application demo’d by Ed Rowe, lead developer for Adobe Integrated Runtime at the keynote on Monday morning! (see photo). We’re really thrilled about AIR, mainly as a tool for increasing the penetration and relevance of SaS applications and also distributed Enterprise Software that we build in our consulting services. [...]

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:38:08 +0000

It is a bit buggy still – partly due to my rush job on building it and partly due to the fact that AIR is still in beta. The select boxes appearing off the right is pretty bizarre but I have mentioned it on the AIR forum.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:56:11 +0000

Hi Juan,

Sorry that was my fault. You can download a zip now and then unzip and you can install the AIR app. It’s just an issue with our server we have to fix.

Thanks!

Andre.

By: seegreen

seegreen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:27:41 +0000

Looks nice,
But a bit buggy.
The form select fields appears not where it should.
When you click on select arrows the div with select options appears far away on the right

By: samir AMZANI

samir AMZANI — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:04:54 +0000

Nice work
the link http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/downloads/CustomerManagerAIR.zip dosn’t work

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:18:00 +0000

really interesting, but the AIR installer is unavailable