Ben Forta's Blog - LiveCycle

Piotr Walczyszyn On LCDS And Tablets

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:02:00 -0400

Fellow Adobe evangelist Piotr Walczyszyn ported a LiveCycle Data Services app to run on Motorola XOOM (running Android 3.1), BlackBerry PlayBook, and Apple iPad, and posted the results (with video) on his blog.

LiveCycle Competition Powered By LiveCycle And ColdFusion

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:46:00 -0400

Adobe Benelux has organized a contest - send your PDF on a round-the-world trip and win a €2,000 travel check. Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management Document Rally uses a Flex front end, LiveCycle for PDF conversion and rights management, and ColdFusion for all communication to and from Flash and for database integration.

Fly An AIR Plane

Thu, 20 May 2010 22:48:00 -0400

This one is just too cool not to mention. Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize turned his Android phone into a remote control to fly a plane, using the new accelerometer API and some LiveCycle Data Services magic. Check out this post.

Greg Wilson Explains ChessJam

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:00 -0400

A few weeks ago I mentioned ChessJam, a Flex/AIR/ColdFusion/LCDS app built by Greg Wilson and some of his pals. Greg has since posted technical details on how the app works. (He actually posted this last week, but I missed it while on the road).

RedMonk Covers FedEx Custom Critical App

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:05:00 -0400

One of the most talked about MAX keynote demos was the FedEx Custom Critical shipment tracking dashboard as presented by FedEx's Adam Mollenkopf. And now RedMonk's Michael Coté has posted an interview with Adam where they look at the app, discuss the business case, and explain why the solution was built on the Flash Platform and powered by LiveCycle Data Services. [Via Duane Nickull]

Flex+AIR+ColdFusion+LCDS=ChessJam

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:06:00 -0400

Fellow Adobe platform evangelist Greg Wilson has posted some details about ChessJam, a new multi-user chess game he helped create. The client is a Flex based AIR application, and the back-end is a mixture of ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services. He has promised to post a follow-up entry with details of the technical underpinnings.

Using BlazeDS? Check Out BlazeMonster

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:11:00 -0400

BlazeDS is LiveCycle Data Services' little brother, our free open-source server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Flex and AIR applications. If you use BlazeDS, then take a look at BlazeMonster, a little app that generates Flex code to consume BlazeDS Remoting services, and also generates configuration files to expose Java classes as Remoting services. BlazeMonster was built by fellow Adobe evangelist Sujit Reddy G.

LiveCycle Data Services3 Now On Labs

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:33:00 -0400

LiveCycle Data Services 3 is now in beta and available for download on Labs. Product Manager Anil Channappa has posted details on what's new in LCDS 3.

Fig Leaf On ColdFusion Powered PDF Forms

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:01:00 -0400

Our pals at Fig Leaf have posted a Captivate tutorial on how to create PDF forms powered by ColdFusion CFCs.

Speaking At Adobe Day Boston

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:33:00 -0400

We're running a series of Adobe Day events focusing on Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and LiveCycle Data Services. Adobe Day Boston is on Monday, February 9, 2009, and I am scheduled to speak. Registration is open and there is still some room left. UPDATE: Looks like this is going to be reschedule for some time in March, sorry.

MAX MegaLab Assets

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:48:00 -0400

I presented a MegaLab hands-on session in San Francisco and Milan, and introduced lots of developers to data-services powered Flex and AIR apps. The session walked Windows and Mac developers through a dozen hands-on apps that started with basic data integration and worked all the way up to data synchronization and offline support and more. Unfortunately, due to a corrupt ZIP file, Mac users were unable to follow along in San Francisco. If you'd like to try the session yourself, here is what you need:

RealTimeDS.zip [400MB] is the complete server containing TomCat, LCDS, ColdFusion, a database, and more.
RealTimeDS.pdf [200KB] is the student hand-out.

All of the instructions are in the ZIP file. Enjoy!

The LiveCycle Team Is Blogging

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:11:00 -0400

The Adobe LiveCycle team is now blogging at About LiveCycle ES.

Duane Explains LiveCycle ES Developer Express

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:47:00 -0400

LiveCycle ES Developer Express is an EC2 cloud hosted pre-configured, virtualized installation of LiveCycle ES Solution Components in a self-contained development environment. And if you really want to know what that means, Duane Nickull explains.

LiveCycle And Amazon

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:57:00 -0400

ReadWriteWeb is running a story entitled Adobe's LiveCycle Powered by Amazon about running LCES on Amazon Web Services.

TechRepublic Continues ColdFusion 8 Coverage With Story About FoodSHIELD

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:31:00 -0400

As a follow-up to last week's story on how NaturalInsight uses ColdFusion 8, TechRepublic is running a new story entitled How FoodSHIELD's developers put ColdFusion 8 to good use. In it, Brian Kotek explains what FoodSHIELD does, and how they use ColdFusion, Savvy CMS, Adobe Connect, and more to power their important work. Among the ColdFusion 8 features mentioned are Ajax support and the integrated LiveCycle Data Services (used to power AIR applications).