12.09.03 - FlashORB 1.0 release will be available in 2 editions: FlashORB Standard and FlashORB Professional. The Standard edition will be free for most commercial uses. The Professional edition will offer a variety of extra features and services as well as professional support
11.25.03 - FlashORB Beta 2 is released with a variety of new features (management console, security, xml socket server, argument factories). The release significantly simplifies deployment of user applications for immediate exposure as Flash Remoting services. Download the latest release here.
11.14.03 - Premier issue of the MX Developers Journal publishes an article by the Midnight Coders' Chief Architect Joe Orbman. The article compares the performance between FlashORB and the SOAP stack built into Flash Player.
09.23.03 - The FlashORB team has just completed an extensive benchmark test comparing the performance of Flash 7 SOAP web services integration with Flash Remoting.
09.14.03 - With the release of Flash MX 2004 and built-in support of SOAP in Flash Player, more people wonder what it will do to Flash Remoting. Tom Muck attempts to address this question with a series of his articles. We are preparing a set of benchmarks comparing both approaches. Full analysis will be published soon.
08.24.03 - More information about Beta2 progress is available on the FlashORB discussion forum.
08.08.03 - Beta 2 of FlashORB will include a lightweight XML Socket Server highly optimized for performance and bi-directional communication. The server will feature asynchronous as well as peer-to-peer messaging. The XML Socket Server feature will be branched out as an open-source project, codenamed 'FLAX'.
08.07.03 - In less than 2 weeks since the release of the website and Beta1, there are more than 200 downloads of the product.
07.26.03 - www.flashorb.com is live so is the first beta of the product.
07.22.03 - FlashORB .NET edition development is well underway. It should be available shortly after Beta 1 of Java Edition is released.
07.07.03 - flashorb.com development is coming along well. The website should be opened up fairly soon.
7.06.03 - FlashORB is quite stable for a beta release. The product launch is pending the website readiness.