How to launch an adobe air application from browser

Question

Is there a way to launch an Adobe Air Application from the browser? I am developing an application that uses webcam, and when the user enter on my site, I need to start this

Answer 1

Yes, it's called browser invocation.

This article explains how to do it. The main point is that you need to set the allowBrowserInvocation value to true in the AIR application's descriptor xml and listen for invocation events.

This post gives a more concrete example, though it is a tad old.