Macromedia announcing Eclipse and Brew support

Macromedia is now an Elite member of the BREW Alliance Program and you will soon be able to use Flash to create BREW applications for american mobile phones. A new IDE based on Eclipse was also announced.

Macromedia will also join the Eclipse Foundation and develop a new application development tool codenamed Zorn based on Eclipse. Eclipse is widely used in the enterprise and by doing thins, Macromedia hope to entice Java developers (and others) into choosing Flash. The Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is an Open Source project pushed by HP, IBM, SUN and others, most commonly used for building Enterprise Java applications. Macromedia already has Eclipse/WebSphere solutions for Dreamweaver and ColdFusion.

The ability to create BREW applications will widen Flash's reach in the mobile business market in the US. BREW is an application development platform for a select few mobile phones that allows for anything from 3D games to business applications. Due to the limited phone support and the lack of support from European and Asian carriers (except one in China), this will probably only be of interest to american Flash developers, but it's still an interesting move. BREW has no native Flash Player, so Macromedia will probably develop one for the BREW platform or use conversion technology recently aquired.
Read the BREW press release here

 

 

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