Adobe Air from Java Stand-Alone App?

[JimCrowell@EMail.com]

Yesterday I posted a query in the DZone Java forum asking for a pure Java method to display a Screencast in a dialog window of my Java Stand-alone application.

As a non-pure Java alternative, I asked for suggestions for a method to obtain my Screencast dialog player goal by including a Screencast player in my deployment files. My design goal was to not require my end user to download a specific Screencast player if it does not currently exist on their computer system.

So far I have had several views but no replies to my query.

Today I continued to look for suggestions via Google searches. This caused me to look again at the Flash Player and the Adobe Air product. It seems to me that the only pure Java solution would be via the JavaFX system but I do not think that JavaFX will have the ability for a Screencast player in the near term.

The Flash Player and Flex may be my best solution using Adobe Air.

Do you agree and, if so, can you answer the below questions:

1) How do I test my host PC to determine if a compatible Flash Player is present?

2) So far my App runs using Java 1.4.2. What version of Java would be required to implement a Screencast Dialog feature using Adobe Air?

3) I assume I would need to download the Adobe Air SDK.
a) Will I need to include some Adobe Air run-time in my deployment scheme?
b) To use Flex to implement the Screencast Dialog display only can I use the Free tier 1 commercial license?

4) I am developing on both the Win XP 2nd Edition and the Mac OS X Leopard platforms using Eclipse [3.3.2] as my IDE. I believe I can install a Flex builder app as an Eclipse plugin somehow. Would that be necessary for this limited Flex usage?

I apologize if my above assumptions are incorrect and my questions are nonsense. When I got the idea to add embedded tutorials [Screencast] to my Java app, I thought it would be a somewhat trivial effort. However, my research so far has shot down that idea.

Thanks for any guidance you may offer,
Jim...

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Originally Posted by JimCrowell@EMail.com

Yesterday I posted a query in the DZone Java forum asking for a pure Java method to display a Screencast in a dialog window of my Java Stand-alone application.

As a non-pure Java alternative, I asked for suggestions for a method to obtain my Screencast dialog player goal by including a Screencast player in my deployment files. My design goal was to not require my end user to download a specific Screencast player if it does not currently exist on their computer system.

So far I have had several views but no replies to my query.

Today I continued to look for suggestions via Google searches. This caused me to look again at the Flash Player and the Adobe Air product. It seems to me that the only pure Java solution would be via the JavaFX system but I do not think that JavaFX will have the ability for a Screencast player in the near term.

The Flash Player and Flex may be my best solution using Adobe Air.

Do you agree and, if so, can you answer the below questions:

1) How do I test my host PC to determine if a compatible Flash Player is present?

2) So far my App runs using Java 1.4.2. What version of Java would be required to implement a Screencast Dialog feature using Adobe Air?

3) I assume I would need to download the Adobe Air SDK.
a) Will I need to include some Adobe Air run-time in my deployment scheme?
b) To use Flex to implement the Screencast Dialog display only can I use the Free tier 1 commercial license?

4) I am developing on both the Win XP 2nd Edition and the Mac OS X Leopard platforms using Eclipse [3.3.2] as my IDE. I believe I can install a Flex builder app as an Eclipse plugin somehow. Would that be necessary for this limited Flex usage?

I apologize if my above assumptions are incorrect and my questions are nonsense. When I got the idea to add embedded tutorials [Screencast] to my Java app, I thought it would be a somewhat trivial effort. However, my research so far has shot down that idea.

Thanks for any guidance you may offer,
Jim...

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