Adobe has done a good job at allowing Air applications integrate well with the desktop.

Adobe isn’t the first to use internet delivery technologies for desktop applications. Mozilla’s XULRunner allows developers to create and package multi-platform programs based off the same technology that powers Firefox. However, Adobe has done a good job at making it simple to publish very traditional AJAX apps as desktop apps.

Adobe’s big problem is they only support Windows and Mac. There is no Linux support, at least not yet. One of Adobe Air’s big selling point is that it makes it easy to create cross-platform applications. However, without Linux support, the most Adobe can advertise is dual-platform apps.

For a great demo Air app, look at this complex YUI example.

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I untarred the archive, and I cd’ed into the untarred folder. At this point, I thought I would follow the getting started guide on running the Kitchen Sink example in hosted mode.

I cd’ed into samples/KitchenSink/ and ran the ./KitchenSink-shell script. At this point I got an error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load required native library 'gwt-webkit'
Your GWT installation may be corrupt
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.mac.LowLevelSaf.init(LowLevelSaf.java:180)
at com.google.gwt.dev.BootStrapPlatform.go(BootStrapPlatform.java:10)
at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.main(GWTShell.java:264)


I did a little bit of Google searching, and I found that someone else had the same problem. He mentioned Issue #300 which I looked at, and it said it was fixed. The problem was something having to do with a case-sensitive filesystem, which I think is odd because I thought all Macs were pretty standard with their case-sensitive filesystems. So I’m not sure if I just have to wait until the next release or if it is still broken or what.

Hopefully it will get fixed soon though because I have a limited amount of free time right now to work on my new project and using GWT on it I think would be sweet.

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