Thanks for the response anyways. I just really wish that this post from awhile back had come true.
It was after the post regarding the possibilities of a spark client based on Adobe AIR that had me hoping eventually that spark would at least work slightly better.
From what I understood that was the direction that jivesoftware was headed but maybe those plans all changed as you said.
Anyways my question about spark and Adobe AIR or Flash Flex was mainly based on what I had read in this post:
http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/blogs/ignite/2007/10/31/our-client-strat egy
Shown Below
Our Client Strategy
Posted by @matt
7 months ago
So, what’s up with Spark? Many of you have commented on the fact that
the pace of development has slowed and that Derek is less present in
the community. Now that a major new version of SparkWeb is out, it
seems like a good time to provide a more detailed status report on
everything happening around client development.
First up, an announcement: Derek has taken a new position (Sales
Engineer) inside of Jive. So far he seems to be loving it, but I’ll let
him comment on this blog post with further details.
Unfortunately, that means that Spark has lost its lead developer. For
the time being, other team members have stepped in to help out. We’re
committed to providing bug fixes and minor new fixes to Spark for the
foreseeable future. It remains one of the best cross-platform XMPP
clients available.
Since Spark development is slowing down, what’s next? Most of Jive’s
XMPP client efforts are now focused on the web via the SparkWeb Flash
client. We’re using the same technology base to add real-time features
to Clearspace. Further, the upcoming Adobe Air
technology offers the intriguing possibility of building a new desktop
client using Flash. To us, it all seems like the perfect triple play –
a single code base that can be used for Sparkweb, Clearspace features
and a new Spark desktop client. Only Sparkweb is ready so far, but
you’ll see new real-time features in Clearspace soon and we’ll keep
everyone updated on a desktop client based on Adobe Air.
Change isn’t always easy and I’m sure that some of you will be
disappointed to hear that our approach to how we build Spark is
changing. There may be some rough spots as we move from one technology
to another, but we’re pretty excited about where things are headed.