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Got a little crazy at the very end of the preso - recompiled my Salesforce Query Tester Flex application as an Apollo app. Seemed like the kind of utility I wanted on the desktop while I do my development. Works great!

I expect that we'll do more work with Salesforce in the near future. The Apollo hook is an especially attractive one now - who really wants to have to log in to a bunch of different web apps to get things done? I could see a salesperson running a small Apollo app to run up-to-the minute lead reports or banging out quick emails to a "favorite" list of Contacts. Forget the browser...this is moving way beyond that now!

And just for the record...converting the Flex app to an Apollo one really was as simple as changing mx:Application to mx:ApolloApplication. To create the package I used this:

You will need the Apollo runtime from Adobe Labs to run the AIR file. And a Salesforce login too :-)