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Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform, popular for adding interactivity and dynamicity to Web pages.  Our Team uses Flash Technology to create animation, advertisements, and various Website components, to integrate video into web pages, and recently, to develop Rich Internet Applications. Ecom Solutions has extensive experience with creating and seamlessly embedding Flash and Flash components for Websites and Applications. Contact one of our specialists in order to discuss the advantages of using Flash within your Website or Application.

Flash Technology:

Flash contains a scripting language called ActionScript. Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video. Several Software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash content, including Adobe Flash Player,  certain Mobile phones, and using Flash Lite (a scaled down version of Flash Player) for other Digital and Electronic Devices. Ecom Solutions uses the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform, such as Web Applications, games and movies, and content for Mobile Phones and other embedded devices.

Files in the SWF format, called ShockWave Flash movies, Flash movies or Flash games, have a .swf file extension and may be an object of a Web page, played in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a Projector - a self-executing Flash movie (with the .exe extension in Microsoft Windows or .hqx for Macintosh). Flash Video files have a .flv file extension and are used from within .swf files or played through a flv enabled player (such as VLC), or QuickTime and Windows Media Player with external codecs added. Flash Player for smart phones is expected to be available to handset manufacturers at the end of 2009

One area Adobe Flash has been focusing on, and our Team of Flash programmers masters, is the deployment of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Adobe has released Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a cross-platform runtime environment which can be used to build, using Adobe Flash, Rich Internet Applications that we can deploy as a Desktop Application. Our Team is an expert in utilinzing Adobe tools, including ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, and AIR.

Flash Development has a bright future ahead, and our Flash programmers are constantly exploiting Adobe's Flash evolution. Additional components designed for Enterprise Level implementation have been proposed by Adobe for future releases of Flash. Adobe has announced plans to add digital rights management capabilities into the new version of Flash. This way Flash technology can give companies the option to link an advertisement with content, while making sure that both are played and that they aren't changed. Adobe is also considering the option to require an ad to be played in full before the main video is played.

Flash & ActionScript:

Designed initially to be focused on animation, early versions of Flash content offered few interactivity features and therefore had very limited scripting capability. More recent versions include ActionScript, an implementation of the ECMAScript standard which has the same syntax as JavaScript, but in a different programming framework, and with a different associated set of class libraries. ActionScript is used by our Flash programmers to create almost all of the interactivity (buttons, text entry fields, drop down menus) seen in many Flash Applications.

Flash MX 2004 introduced ActionScript 2.0, a scripting programming language more suited to the development of Flash Applications. It is possible to save time by scripting something rather than animating it, which usually also enables a higher level of editability of Flash Applications. With the arrival of the Flash Player 9 alpha, a newer version of ActionScript has been released, ActionScript 3.0. ActionScript 3.0 is an object oriented programming language allowing our Flash programmers to attain more control and code reusability when building complex Flash Applications. ActionScript 3.0 has also allowed for formal software engineering methods to be implemented when working with Flash, because of the object oriented programming approach.

Recently the Flash libraries are being used with the XML capabilities of the browser to render rich content in the browser. This technology is known as Asynchronous Flash and XML, much like AJAX. This technology of Asynchronous Flash and XML has pushed for a more formal approach of this technology called Adobe Flex, which uses the Flash runtime to build Rich Internet Applications.

The novel Flash technology can be utilized by Ecom Solutions in players like those on MySpace and YouTube, to provide protection for the content that the Flash calls, like MP3s and videos within your Website or Flash Application. The content called is being streamed - or passes - through the Flash files, making downloading for storage a difficult task for most people. Programs such as Real Player Downloader and browser extensions like Firebug can trace the XML files.