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Well, Merapi has been a long time in the making, but on July 14th, 2008 the initial Merapi Alpha release candidate has been distributed to the Merapi Alpha community of users.

Last evening Adam packaged up first Alpha RC 1 Build! It seems to be bug free and functioning rather nicely!

Read more : http://merapiproject.net/

It’s a simple AIR based debugger for flash & AIR apps.
Arthropod is really easy to use, the only thing you need to do is import the Debug class, write a log message with the log function, start Arthropod and publish your site / AIR application.

Nice application to try

Plurker is an up and coming Windows WPF Desktop application that interfaces with Plurk.com to bring Plurking to desktops everywhere. And there’s a few things the reasons why that would be difficult or impossible for write the apps on AIR, read here

Tell me, was it fair enough?
Personally, I will always happy for write it on top of AIR.

Tags: AIR

A nice Flex application for word processing over web has been released on http://buzzword.acrobat.com.

I spent a little time today for playing around it and found some nice features. It provide capabilities such importing a *.doc files, and successful for rendering table, enable history operation (undo, redo), and other rich text processing operations.

Other good thing about it that Adobe has a whole set of Development APIs that can be used in Flex/AIR to provide such capabilities into our applications.

Tags: Flex, AIR

Defenition of Merapi originally a volcano in Central Java, but there’s a new term about Merapi :

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

Merapi has huge potential and we can looking forward discovering possibility when we can combine the power of Java with the richness and ubiquity of Adobe AIR.

Another project is Artemis active on Apollo (Adobe AIR beta) era but it was abandoned. Today the project rebirth under the name of Merapi.
Merapi use Java to connect AIR to the desktop. The project will be (unfortunately not yet) distributed as a freeware and then as an open source project on Google Code.

Using Merapi, Adobe AIR™ applications can “talk” to other software that the user has installed on their computer. In addition, Merapi allows AIR™ applications to serve as a user interface to just about anything that a Java™ application can do on a user’s computer.