Design and Implementation of an Office Automation Assistant Utility Using Adobe AIR Technology

摘要

Comprehensive online office automation platform helps one process/exchange online documents, schedule meetings and complete information integration as well as other daily office work. However active reminding function of incoming documents/scheduled meetings still remains unavailable in most of the current office automation systems. Thus, traditionally, users have to repeatedly refresh related web pages to obtain latest information, which inevitably influences working efficiency. To tackle the problem, we design and implement an assistant utility, providing the needed reminding functions. The utility is built on Adobe AIR technology, a desktop-oriented browser-less runtime frame for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Through the provided web service, the utility gets the latest information from office automation server. Additionally, HTTP service is employed for providing auto update capability. Moreover, memory optimization is considered in the design and implementation.