Overview of Adobe’s CocomoBy Mathew Fabb

Who Am I I’m a Flash/Flex developer that has

been doing Flash work from the tail-end of Flash 4 and the beginning of Flash 5

I recently left Questrade, and start work at DesignAxiom in December

I’ve been doing a technical edit of Wrox’s Professional Flex 3 Authored by: Joseph Balderson (aka

JoeFlash), Andrew Trice, Peter Ent,Joe Berkovitz, Tom Sugden,Todd Prekaski, David Hassoun, andJun Heider.

Cocomo

Cocomo is “Platform as a Service” that allows Flex developers build real-time multi-user applications

“Cocomo” (a code name not the final name) stands for Common Collaboration Model

Cocomo is basically Acrobat.com’s ConnectNow broken up into components for Flex developers to use

Developers just have to focus on the Flex frontend code while the backend is maintained by Adobe, using the Acrobat.com infrastructure

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Cocomo’s features include: VoIP Audio Webcam Video Chat Multi-User Whiteboards Real-Time File Sharing User Management Roles and Permissions Robust Data Messaging

Cocomo is currently using an early pre-beta of Flash Media Server that takes advantage of the new P2P functionality in Flash Player 10 for direct client video and audio

Screen sharing found in ConnectNow is currently not available

SDK comes with a local server to test code offline

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The beta currently has the following restrictions: 25 concurrent users 15,000 cumulative user minutes per

month 250,000 messages published per month 3 GB bandwidth (in + out) per month

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Getting started with Cocomo

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Cocomo’s Developer’s portal

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Cocomo’s Architecture

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Demo

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Links: Cocomo on Adobe Labs Collaborative Methods – The blog from

the Cocomo team