Trace on air application runtime

Hi,
I want to see trace statement when i run my air .exe files. How to do that? Few of them ask to use the ADL,But I am not much aware of that.On my client place some time my air application get crash. Can i able to log the trace files ?
Thanks,
Siva

Hi Siva,
You're on the right track. To get trace output you'll want to use adl.exe to launch your application. Please see this doc for details:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WSfffb011ac560372f-6fa6d7e0128cca93d31-8000.html
Thanks,
Chris

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Dear Team members,
first of all my apologies for posting this thread in more than one forum (see Installations Issues) but the argument is very important to us and I don't know where discuss it.
I would like to post a question to you regarding deployment doubts that we are trying to address.
My company is working on the new version of our primary application previously built as a J2EE application with some reporting functions with Flex, and we want to use AIR in order to leverage its possibilities:
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At this point, in our opinion the standard deployment strategies of Adobe AIR applications are unfit for enterprise environments. In the enterprise world, many of the applications have migrated to a completely browser-based solution, while others enhanced their client layer to comply with the requirements, for example installing only a thin portion of the client code and allowing to connect to multiple server versions/environments with it (e.g. the SAP GUI universal client). Without smarter deployment and distribution tools, AIR applications currently are a step back compared to web applications in terms of manageability.
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the connection names strarts with "_".
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Thank you for taking out your time to solve my problem.
I did all the steps mentioned in that link i.e. installed folder lock and uninstalled it from it's options only.
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I read a response here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161570/how-do-i-launch-a-standalone-swf-from-within-an- abode-air-application
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