Do you remember Jamjar Technology?

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Hi everyone,When Flash Player and Flex were in their heyday, in what is now Adobe Labs was created a technology called JamJar, it was fascinating to discover a tool that would work as a blackboard for the visualization of multimedia files free of drag and modification as if you grouped things related to a topic or a work plan. After time it was discontinued without pain or glory. My question for the Flash Player developers team is if they have plans to publish the JamJar source code for those that we still develop in Flex, it could be very useful to learn more techniques about the Flash Platform.

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

I can definitely say that there are no plans to open source it at this point. It's some demo application that got developed 12 years ago as part of the promotion around Flex 2. Whatever team built it (it was probably *not* the actual technology teams working on Flash or the Flex framework -- it was either an agency we hired, or some internal team that has long-since disbanded), they're definitely not worrying about Jam Jar at this point.

I did find some evidence of it on archive.org including a whitepaper, but I don't see code as an available deliverable.

Adobe Labs - JamJar

If it were being built today, we'd probably just build it on GitHub as a matter of course, but we're talking about ancient history in Internet time.

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