I have always found it very difficult to understand and build java applications. Hence i always used to run away from the sound of it. But believe it or not now i find, a person who has worked well with flash/flex will find java to be very understandable. You can say flash added a expression to java over the few years. So anyway to quench my thirst i decided to work on a java GUI application this week. And here it is – “SwfMetaDataInjector”. Flash has supported metadata even before Google / Yahoo started indexing swfs wit their special algorithms. This meta data is stored as a markup, in RDF (Resource Description Framework) format. To know more about this you can read a very intuitive article by Robert Reinhardt
SwfMetaDataInjector lets you write back meta information into swf files even without their fla sources. currently it supports swfs published for flash player 8 and below. i hope to do better with it over time. The application will require you to have the latest java runtime. I this works out forthcoming versions will have batch processing capabilities and better UI. Currently this application is at version 0.01 .
You can download the application here
