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Alex Harui commented on FLEX-53:
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The Flash runtime provides a set of APIs for things like Array and String
manipulation, XML and RegExp handling, network I/O, drawing graphics, handling
mouse and keyboard input, and more. These capabilities are part of the
FlashPlayer or AIR runtimes. Applications are typically delivered without any
code to perform the above mentioned APIs because those APIs are resolved at
launch time into entry points into the runtime (There is a capability to
combine the AIR runtime into the same deliverable as the application).
At compile time, any application that wants to use the runtimes needs to have
playerglobal.swc or airglobal.swc in the library path in order for the compiler
to resolve those APIs, but no code from those swc files are linked into the
output SWF.
I am not an expert in Java, but to me, this is the equivalent of some of the
files in a JDK and the Flash or AIR runtime is similar to a JRE.
In addition to playerglobal.swc and airglobal.swc, the AIR SDK also includes
additional utilities to package applications for different target devices like
Android or IOS. These utilities are not distributed with the application.
> Clarify usage of playerglobal.swc and airglobal.swc
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>
> Key: FLEX-53
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-53
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Project Management
> Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
> Assignee: Carol Frampton
>
> As discussed in [1], Flex requires
> 1) playerglobal.swc to compile the majority of the Flex components
> 2) airglobal.swc to compile the Flex components targeted at AIR
> 3) many pieces of the AIR Integration kit which are need to do Flex mobile
> development
> We might need clarification for 3), but for now we need to find out how to
> use these files while abiding by their license requirements and complying
> with the ASF's restrictions on incompatible license
> (http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html).
> According to Alex in [1] those two files are covered by this license:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/adobe_flex_software_development_kit-combined-20110916_0930.pdf
> And it seems like they're only needed at build time, so users of Flex could
> get them independently.
> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/muckogic3f2zwd7o
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