Available from Adobe as part of a free preview program, Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at home, work or school* inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio, animation and interactivity into everyday projects – from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites - in a simple, creative environment. Project ROME can be used as a web-based service or as a desktop Adobe® AIR® application.
Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd) alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. The primary goal of this project is to provide a framework for Flex 2+/EJB 3/Seam/Spring/Guice/POJO application development with full AMF3/RemoteObject benefits.
It also features a Comet-like data push implemention (AMF3 requests sent over HTTP) and ActionScript3 code generation tools (Ant task and Eclipse builder).
Dedicated service factories are available for:
* EJB 3 (session beans that return entity beans),
* Seam (with identity security and conversation/task support),
* Spring (with Acegi security and entity beans support),
* Guice/Warp (with entity beans support),
* Simple Java classes (aka POJO) interactions.
GDS is designed to be lightweight, robust, fast, and highly configurable.
JSF Flex goal is to provide users capability in creating standard Flex components as JSF components. So users would create the components as normal JSF components and the project will create the necessary SWC, SWF files and etcetera and link the values of the components back to the managed beans using JSON+Javascript and Actionscript. {standard Flex components has been open sourced through MPL license}
Currently many of the standard rich flex widgets (buttons, sliders, inputs [richTextEditor, textArea, ...], progressbars, colorpickers, various panels [accordion, tabBar, ...], and etcetera) have been written as intention of support.