Adobe is heading in the right direction and lowers the barrier for real time communication significantly. Integration of text chat or video into applications becomes for the first time cheap in engineering terms. I could not find any information about the business model around it. I hope Adobe finds an acceptable way for monetization of commercial use.
The package 0.9 you currently get, is fully up to my expectation of a beta release. The numerous examples run within seconds (for those that do not read docs as I do, the room URL is something like http://connectnow.acrobat.com/myAccountName/myFirstRoom). Nowadays, security is a must and the implementation looks just fine. You can delegate authentication to your own application.
Architecture
In the developer guide, you find this overview. It gives you a dictionary of the new terms introduced.
What’s next?
Things I’d like to know and will investigate:
- I want to authenticate users with OpenID. How can I integrate this with Cocomo?
- Study the rather long license terms and see how liable it is for free stuff and commercial use.
- What’s Adobe’s business model for commercial products?
