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Adobe Partners With Mozilla and Frees Flash Player Technology (ActionScript VM)

Adobe partnered with Mozilla and took ActionScript Virtual Machine, AVM, to the open source community, letting AJAX developers benefit from some of its JIT technology.

Adobe partnered with Mozilla and continues the ActionScript 3 API and Flex 2 SDK open source initiative, by adding the ActionScript Virtual Machine, AVM, to the open source family. ActionScript Virtual Machine, or AVM, is the code on which Flash Player runs.

Mozilla brings into this project, dubbed Tamarin project, its SpiderMonkey, looking forward to embrace ECMAScript 4th Edition.

The just-in-time, JIT technology, compiler switches ActionScript code to machine code, leading to incredible performance boosts over previous versions. Taking this into consideration, Adobe's code donation will enable JavaScript/Ajax apps running alot faster on the new Just In Time, JIT compiler.

ActionScript has considerable chances of turning into the standard for the future ECMAScript.

IBM was another benefactor in the AJAX world, when it donated some of its proprietary code to the Eclipse Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a type of "Rich Internet Application," allowing Web innovations like updating portions of a Web page automatically, checking information submitted (e.g information in order forms), drag-and-dropping objects inside a Web browser, and utilizing a rich set of buttons, icons, scroll bars, menus and widgets for easy web site surfing.