Tech News: Adobe Labs | Apollo

Always wanted to create cross-platform desktop applications? Well there is now a new solution for developers, in the form of the new Apollo platform from Adobe.

Web Developers have reasons to cheer too. You can use HTML and Javascript to actually communicate with the Apollo framework, giving web developers a change to put their web apps onto the desktop.

At the Adobe Labs, Apollo is described as "the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop."

Currently in Alpha stages, it has demonstrated vast possibilities with the runtime. Sample applications can be found through out adobe's website as well as its weblog.

Whats more the Apollo runtimes are free just like Adobe Flex.