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Adobe Air 2 Beta Finally Out!

In an industry that are working with virtual file systems and online document management (www.knowledgetree.com), I have been waiting for this moment for some time now – Adobe Air 2 is finally in beta.

This version of Air opens up several new functionalities – eg. :

• Drag & Drop support of remote files via the filePromiseList clipboard object.
• Socket Server Support – Air apps can now listen on a port and no longer need to initiate a network conversation. This also enables different air apps to now communicate with each other using socket connections.
• New Filesystem API – This includes functionalities like being able to open files with their default registered application, flag files as downloaded so that the operating system can warn against opening them and notification of mounting and dismounting volumes.
• NativeProcess API allows you to execute a third party process and interact with it.
• Microphone Capabilities allows you to access raw data from the microphone, inspect it, alter it, encapsulate it as WAV and store it to the local filesystem.
• HTML5 & CSS3 Support will let you implement the provisional features of next-gen interactive document markup.

For more information on where to get all this goodness: Adobe Labs