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The Shockwave Player allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser.
Why is Adobe discontinuing the Shockwave player? As technologies evolve and the use of mobile devices has grown, interactive content has moved to platforms such as HTML5 Canvas and Web GL and usage of Shockwave has declined.
Shockwave player has reached end-of-life, effective April 9, 2019. Adobe will stop updating and distributing Flash Player after December 31, 2020.
Adobe Director, a tool for creating Shockwave content, and the Shockwave player for MacOS were both discontinued in 2017. The company said Creative Cloud would be the best replacement. This comes after Adobe announced in 2017 that it'll stop developing and distributing Flash at the end of 2020.
Adobe Shockwave was a media player (formerly by Macromedia), and can be used to run Adobe Director applications (usually in a web browser as a plugin). It has largely been superseded by Adobe Flash (also originally by Macromedia). IIRC, Flash was originally just a new fancy version of Shockwave, usually referred to as Shockwave Flash (which is where it gets confusing). This is why most Flash objects have the SWF extension.
Flex is built on top of Flash, and is designed to simplify a few aspects of flash. Think of Flex like a toolkit (à la Qt and GTK) for Flash.
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