Merapi Leads the Way for the Next Generation of Web Site Development
Summary
The Merapi Project, named after a volcano on the Island of Java, is a software framework that allows developers to extend beyond the traditionally imposed "sandbox" security that is native to Web browsers and Adobes Flash Player / AIR Runtime.The Merapi framework can be used by software developers who are using Adobes highly popular and ubiquitous Flash platform, Adobe AIR, and the standards-based AJAX to develop applications that connect directly to an end-users software operating system, completely blurring the line between connected desktop and online Web applications.To be honest, we plan to show the world what Merapi can really do and we think that once it gains adoption, the concept of Web-based software will change forever," commented Flater."We created Merapi as a means to build the types of applications that enterprise clients really have been asking for," said Adam Flater, chief architect and Merapi Project founder.The Merapi framework can be used by software developers who are using Adobes highly popular and ubiquitous Flash platform, Adobe AIR, and the standards-based AJAX to develop applications that connect directly to an end-users software operating system, completely blurring the line between connected desktop and online Web applications.People are looking to use Merapi to do everything from controlling industrial manufacturing robots via Web interfaces and interfacing with legacy mainframe software by creating brilliant new graphical user interfaces to those that are looking to use Merapi to connect external devices like mobile phones or bluetooth-enabled hardware to applications that are developed using the standard (and easy to use) Web technologies that they already know very well," said Meeker.Merapi works by enabling Flash-player content as well as HTML/Javascript Web applications to connect to Java applications that handle processing on the users desktop.The Merapi Project team will be featured at a variety of events that take place during this Falls Adobe MAX Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in November.