The company says it will release code for its Web development tool to the open-source community. Adobe Systems announced today that it plans to move the development of Adobe Flex to an open-source model.
The transition to open source will begin in June with the beta version of the next Flex release, known as "Moxie." The full release of open-source Flex will occur in conjunction with the final release of Moxie, scheduled to be available at the end of 2007. The Flex source code will be released under the MPL (Mozilla Public License).
In addition to open-sourcing Flex, San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation under the Tamarin project and used the open-source WebKit engine in its Apollo project.
Adobe plans to release the components of the open-source Flex SDK, including the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the ActionScript libraries that make up the core of Flex's framework.
The move to open source will allow other open-source projects to use the capabilities provided by Flex's framework., according to David Mendels, senior vice president of the Enterprise and Developer Unit at Adobe.
"The definition and evolution of Flex has been influenced by our talented developer community from day one," Mendels said in a statement. "We are incredibly excited to collaborate with the developer community on Flex, and further fuel its momentum and innovation."
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