server side Adobe AIR apps

This might sound like a really stupid question, but is there anyway to run an Adobe AIR application in a headless server side mode on a non-UI server (i.e. Linux)? I'm tryi开发者_Python百科ng to build server side bots to interact with an API (grapevinetalk.com) and I want to use existing code to do that without having to re-write all the data munging etc for a new application.

The application I'm trying to port is essentially a jQuery based AIR desktop app that I want to reuse for server side interactions. I've tried Rhino with envjs.com, but am having some issues so am looking at alternatives.

Thanks

Robbie

AIR applications can be headless in the sense that they can run without UIs, and start on boot and so on. I'm not 100% sure that they can be installed without a UI though, though that may not be a problem if it's possible to temporarily get a server UI with a remote desktop of whatever variety.

But you should be aware that this isn't really a supported use case for AIR right now. I recall seeing an issue (can't find the link any more) where someone had written a server-like AIR app that worked fine for a while and then stopped responding, and when they remoted onto the server the found that the runtime had popped up an update dialog and it was waiting for input. I believe there's currently no way to avoid this kind of thing.