The Technology of AIR Applied to Automation

With the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) was designed by Adobe as a cross-system running RIA program. However, AIR is designed for Web 2.0 applications, with limited ability of the access to the local computer, for example, the access to the local serial port, parallel port and so on. To avoid that, a service routine was designed and realized to change the access to serial port and parallel port from local API function to network using C++ program language. Help by this service routine, AIR can be applied in automation with its powerful socket function. An AIR serial debugging tools was designed successful through this service routine.