Yahoo! News reported about Adobe Open-Sourcing Data Access Technology. Though interesting, the technology is not immediately useful, because it has many other components (Adobe’s, of course) tied to it, including the new AIR, Flex, and Flash. It should be immediately pretty, and feels more like an application, so it will be really sassy to marketeers and sales people. Perhaps we will consider if it can be useful to the project when it comes to the reporting section. However, it will means we will need a Flash/Adobe developer. Hmm…

Developers can connect to back-end distributed data and push data to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) applications. The Adobe Flash Player is used on the client side.”We’ve seen more and more of our customers who are using Flex technologies are building more sophisticated applications,” said Phil Costa, Adobe director of product management for Flex and ColdFusion.

“To support the growth of that developer community, we’re releasing these low-level technologies as an open-source project so a larger community of developers can get access to them.”

BlazeDS, which stands for data services, allows developers to add connectivity to rich Internet applications for collaboration and data-push functionality. Developers also can connect rich clients to server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components, Adobe said…

BlazeDS will be offered under the Lesser GPL version 3 license in early-2008. BlazeDS and AMF are available as public betas on Adobe Labs. Using
BlazeDS requires client libraries, which are included in the Flex SDK and Flex Builder.

Adobe may in the future provide a native AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) client to work with its newly open sourced technologies.

Adobe also plans to offer Adobe LiveCycle Data Services Community Edition, a subscription service featuring builds of BlazeDS and access to Adobe support services.

What? Even more Adobe products? Why am I not surprised?