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AIR support added to Antennae build template system

I'm pleased to announce Antennae release 1.0001 has now been posted. The full release notes are available online. Please leave me any feedback if you run into issues or have feature requests. Below is a summary of the key updates:

Flex based AIR application support

New targets and tasks have been added to support the building, running, and packaging of Flex based AIR applications.

A sample project has been put together that demonstrates the use of these new targets.

A key concept used in AIR application support is the concept of an "assets" directory. Since the AIR ADT application packager requires you to specify each file that should be bundled into the application, Antennae has instead chosen to specify a single directory. The goal being that by default all files under "assets" will be packaged with the application and there is no need to include these files in the source tree.

Simplified importing

All template applications have been updated to use the new single build-common-imports.xml file to pull in all standard Antennae build files.

Source code included

The source code for the ARC-FlexUnit pieces are now bundled with Antennae. This is for reference purposes. To rebuild the platform please grab the latest source code from the SVN repository for Antennae. http://antennae.googlecode.com/svn/

Linux fixes

Fixed bug about not being able to run automated unit tests on Linux.

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